Dwarf Basil, 

 Egg Plant. 



Enratorium, 



HOBTICULTURE 



AL AND BIENNIAL FLOWERS— CoH/f'i 



JIusk Geranium 



HORTICULTURE 



Passion Flower, 



Pseony. 



Pea, Sweet, 



Peach, Double-flowering, 



Pink, 



Perennial Sunflower, double, 



PoIy,inthus, 



Pyrethrum Parthenium, 



Poppy, 



Purple Hyacinth Bean, 



Rose 



olored Hibiscu 



ihI, Broad-le,aved (.Eah 



Plant (Podoplylli 



Rudl.eckii 



Scarlet ('acalia. 



Scarlet Lychnis {L. Chalce 



donica). 

 Siberian Crab, 

 Snow-ball Tree, 

 Snowberry, 



Spice-wood (ioMriis Benzoin), 

 Spiderwort {Tradescantia) , 

 Spir; 



' nga, or Mock Orange, 



Tulip. 



Veuetian Sumac, or 



Tree. 

 Violet, blue fragrant. 



last few y 



Palm an i 



where 



of luxur e 



characte of 



wrote Alfr 



came a fl 



durnff heh 



to New Yo k 



wen be? n a u ti 



is q een ani the poor cane a hn 



do her e erence » » » * i conii 



the me not far d an h n w 



ous w h he fo e n 



var e of ro e 



the fo ow n con 



"Abo t he }ear 8 



be for ed an 1 d n 



tities of these b bs 



land As the me ho s of f 



market became o er ocke 1 



tities are for el h 



they are not now n 



rose carnat on v o 



are st 11 the favor 



for h n 



ago 

 and 

 ands 



GREENHOUSE PLASTS. 



Sweet 



.Single and Double Jonquils 

 White LUies, 



Tuberoses, 



Mignonette, 



Verbena trifoliata. 

 Vervain, 



Fuchsia coccinea, 



Cobasa scandens. 



Camellia Japonica, or Japa- 

 nese Rose, 



Myrtles. 



for 



crease s no cea e n tne e 

 home and the de nan i s for 

 plant pa ms drace a arau i 



d we 



own 



u ioeed 



J ked 



pa to adorn the 



expen e a of 





be ng 

 h anv 



nj of 



These lists are much less ample than those of M'Ma 

 hou, over twenty years earlier, but they may be sup 

 posed to include the popular and most easily growr 

 thina^s. They will be suggestive to those who 

 wish to make "old-fashioned gardens." M'Mahon's 

 list was evidently largely compiled from Euro- 

 pean sources. Green says that the fir.st list 

 (strangely called "annua! and biennial flowers") 

 contains "such plants, shrubs and trees as are of 

 easy cultivation, generally hardy." The 

 comprises "a few different sorts of greenh^ 

 plants" "which are commonly grown 



The first American book to be devoted to 

 special flower was Sayers' book on the dahl: 

 Boston, 18.39, which appeared only a year lat 

 than Paxton's well-known book iu Englaii 

 Sayers' book also included the cactus. The ik 

 special flower book seems to have been Buisi 

 "Rose Manual," Philadelphia, 18-14. although 

 sentimental book on the "Queen of Flowers" li 

 appeared in the same city in 18-11. Biiist s b,. 

 went to at least four editions. It was fc.llcwiMl 

 Prince's in 18-4i;, and by .S. B. Pars..i,\ "'l' 

 Rose: Its History, Poetry, Culture and (lasM 

 cation," 1846. Parson's book wmt t.. a r.-vi^ 

 edition. Of later-date flow,- 

 several of importance, but it 



fine p an s sea tered hrough 

 our mo lern ho es are pro 

 window or sraa 1 conser a o f 

 plan See C to and t 



Eaelt Pomoloc cal We tings It s in the pomolog 

 ical wr ngs that Nor h Amer ca has made the greatest 



tiliilntiu t 1 It. ulf iril hterattire. William For- 



i-arly portray the tendencies of the eytli^ , 

 sts, — from the formal-flower ideals of meur <> 

 .nellia to the enormous development was wi, 



rise on the Culture and Manage- 

 ippeared in London in 1802, and it 

 mpression of 1,500 copies (of the 



