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Leiantha. — The flowers are a dazzling scarlet. The plant oi 

 bushy habit, very free flowering and healthy. 



Triphylla. — Flowers bright orange-scarlet, very showy. The 

 plant is a free summer bloomer, and is one of the best for bed- 

 ding out. 



The Petunia. — This is a very popular bedding plant, of very 

 easy culture, and makes a very showy bed. It grows well in 

 any rich garden soU, begins to bloom in June, and contraues to 

 grow and flower all through the summer, until checked by frost. 

 It should be planted always in a bed devoted solely to Petunias, ■ 

 for the plants spread so rapidly, and often grow so luxuriantly, 

 that they are apt to over-run and conceal other plants. They 

 may be had of all colors, except blue and yellow, and both sin- 

 gle and double. Many are very prettily striped, blotched, and 

 spotted. Some are also sweet-scented. They are not suitable 

 for bouquets, wilting soon after being cut, but they make a very 

 showy bed, and should always be grown in masses, and not as 

 single plants. 



Varieties of any desired colors, and single or double, can 

 always be obtained at very low prices of our florists, in the bed- 

 ding season. Those who do not care for the choicest sorts can 

 treat the Petunia as an annual, sow the seed in a hot-bed or cold 

 frame, and trahsplant to the Petunia bed, setting the plants 

 about eighteen inches apart. These will begin to bloom in 

 July and continue until late in the fall, and though the plants 

 will vary greatly in the color and markings of the flowers, yet 

 many of them, doubtless, will be very fine, and all of them 

 profuse bloomers. 



We do not attempt a list of the named varieties. New kinds 

 are being annually brought out, and each can select from the 

 tradesmen's lists such as seem most desirable, without fear of, 

 getting a poor flower. The single varieties are the most profuse 

 blooming, and to us the most satisfactory, but many prefer 

 the double. AH are propagated freely by cuttings. 



