OHAPTEE VL 



BEDDING-OUT PLANTS, PANSIES, VEEBENAS, HELIOTEOPES, 

 FEVEEFEWS, ETC. 



" Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers! 



Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book! 

 Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers 

 From loneliest nook.'' 



The varieties of plants called by florists bedding-out plants, are very 

 popular and deservedly so. Their flowers present a brilliant mess of 

 coloring all the summer, and their hues are richer than those of most 

 other flowers. 



Pansies are great favorites they will grow in shady nooks where no 

 other flower can bloom and their flowers continue from the earliest 

 spring until the latest autumn. Various and familiar are the names by 

 which the Pansy has been known for centuries. 



Gerard, who wrote a long description of it, says it was known 

 as Love-in-idleness, Jump-up-and-kiss-me, Three-faces-under-a-hood, 

 Heart's-ease, and Pansy. The Italians named it Nola farfalla (Violet 

 Butterfly). 



Lady Mary Bennet of England, afterwards Lady Monck, first intro- 

 duced the Pansy to the attention of the florists. Early in the present 

 century, she planted all the varieties of the Heart's-ease which she could 

 procure, and with the skillful aid of her gardener, new varieties were 

 produced from seed. 



About 1813, the well-known florist, Mr. Lee, of Vineyard Nursery, at 

 Hammersmith, saw Lady Mary's collection, and immediately perceived 

 the profit that would accrue from the cultivation of this flower. His 



