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in May, if trained to strings or stakes, will attain a height 

 of six to nine feet before October. There is now an im- 

 mense demand for this grand climber, and so far the 

 supply has been entirely inadequate. 



Balsams should not be sown sooner than May 1st. 

 Sown at that- time, they will make fine plants by the 

 middle of June if to be sold in pots; if wanted for cut 

 flowers, they should be sown in the open ground about 

 June 1st. 



Carnation. The monthly kinds of Carnation should 

 be sown in winter or early spring, and if grown either 

 in pots or planted in the open ground, will flower the 

 first season by September or October. But the hardy 

 garden Carnations, so much grown for cut flowers in 

 summer, should not be sown before the middle of May, 

 in the open ground, and should be planted in July, eight 

 or ten inches apart, when they will cover the ground by 

 fall, and will stand the winter in almost any section of 

 the country where the thermometer does not fall below 

 zero ; or in sections such as Canada, where the ground is 

 covered by snow, they will stand a much lower tempera- 

 ture. 



Cineraria, Calceolaria and Primula seeds, in our 

 opinion, are best sown in March, April, or May ; we have 

 practised sowing at this time for the past fifteen years, 

 vvith great success. In England, the practice is to sow in 

 July and August, and it is all right in their cooler cli- 

 mate, but it is a very difficult matter to get seeds of any 

 of these to vegetate freely in hot weather, and we prefer 

 to start the seeds earlier and keep the plants through the 

 summer, prickad off in shallow boxes. The seeds will 

 vegetate freely in September and October, but it is then 

 rather too late to get plants large enough. 



Besides the plants thus described in detail, as being 

 suitable to raise from seeds in greenhouse or hot-bed, the 



