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easily obtained, and the best way to treat it is to sow as 

 soon as ripe, and give the seedlings frame culture through 

 their first winter, and plant them out in March or April. 



The following are the best twenty-four varieties, 

 single and double : — Achille, Aurora, Ceres, Captain Nares, 

 Dr. Livingstone, lllmile Lemoine, Floribundum plenum, 

 Gustave Heitz, Hermann Stenger, Haage and Schmidt, 

 Iturbide, La Vestal, Lady Derby, Michael Buchner, 

 Monsieur Barrall, Mont Blanc, Nancy, Ne plus Ultra, 

 Peau Rouge, Placida, Solfaterre, Striatum plenum, Uzziel, 

 White Aster. 



