September 19, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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Bouvardias as Bedders. — These have been tried at Kevr 

 for the first time this year and they are a decided success, 

 notwithstanding- the unfavorableness of the weather we 

 have had. Probably they are largely used for outdoor 



very useful they prove when well managed. But they are 

 first-rate in the open border, the plants branching freely 

 and flowering well and continuously. The best red we 

 have is President Cleveland, probably the finest Bouvardia 



Fig. 61. — Indigotera decora alba. — See page 376. 



gardening in America, but if they are not, then permit me 

 to recommend them as being in every way suitable. I 

 have seen them in the south of France where they form 

 big bushes in a single season and flower most profusely. 

 Generally here they are grown in pots under glass, and 



ever raised ; Maiden's Blush is the best of the pinks, and 

 the best white is Humboldtii. Another delightful sort is 

 the small B. splendens, which forms a globose little bush 

 a foot across and flowers all over like a Lobelia. 



London. W. WatSOH. 



