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plan with Eoses and many other plants with excellent 

 results. 



The Fancy Pelargoniums (Pelargonium grandiflorum) , 

 or " Lady Washington Geraniums," as they are called in 

 most of the Eastern States, require in all respects nearly 

 the same culture as the Zonal, except that they are best 

 kept in pots during summer when wanted for stock. 



Fuchsias, Heliotropes, Lantanas and Petunias require 

 a little higher temperature than Geraniums, but their 

 general culture is very similar when grown during the 

 winter for market ; but Astilbe (incorrectly Spircea), 

 Carnations, Dicentra, Feverfew, Hollyhocks, Pinks, and 

 all other half-hardy plants, should be treated like Roses 

 that is, kept in a low temperature, thirty-five or forty-five 

 degrees at night in winter, until they have formed new 

 roots. The use of Hollyhocks as market plants may be 

 known to few of our readers, but the new Dwarf Holly- 

 hock, "Crimson Pyramid," has proved excellent for that 

 purpose in the New York markets, and if, as is likely to 

 be the case, it comes to " break " into all the colors of the 

 Hollyhock, we will here have a grand and showy feature 

 in our market flowers. The seed of the Hollyhock, 

 " Crimson Pyramid," if sown in August, will give plants 

 strong enough to be suitable for five or six inch pots 

 by November, when they should be kept in a cool green- 

 house or frame until March, when, if started in heat of 

 sixty degrees at night, they will flower abundantly by the 

 middle or end of May. This Hollyhock grows to a 

 height of twelve to fifteen inches, forming a well-defined 

 pyramid, clothed from base to summit with rich, crim- 

 son semi-double flowers. Although it can be propagated 

 from cuttings, it is best grown from seeds, which it 

 produces freely in July and August. 



