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vigor to the plants. Frequent waterings of liquid manure 

 will be found very beneficial, as the balsam must be very 

 highly fertilized if fine flowers are expected. This I lower 

 has been greatly improved during the last few years, and 

 we now have the most beautiful colored flowers, including 

 white, deep blood red, satiny white, white spotted and 

 striped with lilac, and scarlet, etc. The finest strain is 

 probably the camellia flowered, some of these flowers 

 being - almost as perfect and as double as a camellia : a 

 mixture of this seed, containing all the self and fancy 

 varieties is what we need. 



CANDYTUFT. 



The annual candytuft which we will now consider is 

 universally known, and no garden is complete without it. 

 It is much used in beds, borders, ribbon gardening, and 

 for boquets, and single plants transplanted also look well 

 and bloom abundantly. Seed sown in the fall and 

 slightly protected with leaves or other light mulching,, 

 will bloom early in the spring, and sown from April to 

 June will bloom from July until frost. The colors in- 

 clude white, purple, crimson and flesh color ; the varieties 

 are all hardy and easy to cultivate. Some of the sorts 

 are very fine. Carter's New Carmine is a beautiful vivid 

 carmine; Dunnett's Crimson is also good; Empress, a 

 new variety, is pure white. The old favorite, White 

 Rocket, if given more growing space than the others, and 

 not planted nearer than two feet apart in rich soil, will 

 completely cover the ground, and it is a fine variety with 

 large white trusses. 



PETUNIA. 



The petunia, a small genus of half hardy herbaceous 

 perennials, are all natives of South America, and mostly 

 confined to Brazil. Though strictly perennial they may 

 be grown as hard} 7 annuals. As bedding plants they are 

 unsurpassed if indeed equalled, and as they succeed in 

 almost any soil, they are found in almost every garden : 



