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where they will flower freely during the summer. These 

 plants should never be stopped, but the branches be allowed 

 to grow their full length and form their flower buds in the 

 fall, before they are taken into the green-house. 



The Eupatorium elegans and E. ccelistinum are pretty 

 plants for winter flowering, and should be cultivated precisely 

 the same as the Heliotrope, and turned out in the borders in 

 the spring; but they do not flower so profusely in the sum- 

 mer, although their flowers in the winter will pay for the 

 trouble. 



Justica speciosa, are delightful winter flowering plants. 

 With these all the tender kinds of Salvia, as Salvia splen- 

 dens, and its varieties are also desirable plants. These should 

 be propagated in the fall and well established in the pots for 

 winter flowering. 



The Lantana mittabilis, and all its varieties, are also 

 pretty varieties of summer flowering plants, and cuttings of 

 every variety should be propagated in the fall for the purpose 

 of planting out in the spring. 



The Cineraria is also a pretty family of flowering tender 

 plants, that may be either propagated by sowing the seed of 

 the finer varieties in the fall, and potting them in rich com- 

 post, or they may be propagated by dividing the roots about 

 the first of January, when they will make fine flowering 

 plants in a few weeks. 



The Fuchsia, or Ladies' Ear Drop, is also deserving more 

 general cultivation than it receives. In many parts of Europe 

 it is now becoming the belle ideal of parterres, in the summer, 

 where it is cultivated to great perfection, and several of the 

 new varieties are highly deserving a trial in this country. 



The cuttings may be propagated in the spring, and turned 

 out in a bed of good rich earth about the middle of May, to 

 flower during the summer. 



The Erythrina crista galli, or the Coral plant, and its 

 varieties, is also a beautiful tribe of plants for the flower 

 garden in the summer. The roots are tender, tuberous, and 



