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friable and be well drained, but it is not necessary that it sboidd 

 be very rich. It may be too rich for the best display of. bloom, 

 inducing too great a growth of wood and foliage. The plants 

 may be set out when the weather has become warm, and if they 

 have been well hardened off no fears need be entertained because 

 of a slight frost. When set as close together as the size of the 

 plants will permit, and in considerable masses, they produce the 

 best effect. 



In autumn the plants may be taken up before the coming of , 

 hard frosts, and either potted singly or planted in boxes of earth. 

 They can be kept over winter in a dry, frost-proof cellar, without 

 being watered at all, unless they show signs of shrivelling from 

 extreme dryness, and planted out in the late spring in the open 

 bed. The branches will require to be cut back when they are 

 planted out, so that they may retain a neat and compact head. 

 K preferred, they may be wintered in the parlor window, but 

 our experience teaches us that they will thrive better if, after 

 being put into pots in autumn, .they are allowed a couple of 

 months of rest before being brought to the light and warmth. 



ZoNALE AND NosEGAT Gbeaniums. — ^These give us our best 

 bedders now, (1872), and many of them are extremely beautiful 

 grown as specimens in pots. There is no end to the names ; 

 every year will give us new ones, some of which wiU doubtless 

 be improvements on those now cultivated ; yet we venture to 

 give those of a few of the very best that we now have. These 

 are all truly splendid sorts, that will not fail to give pleasure to 

 the grower, until those that can excel them in beauty are pro- 

 duced. 



Amy Hogg. — Bright purplish rose. 



Black Dwarf. — Crimson scarlet. 



Golesliill. — Bright scarlet. 



Diana. — Clear glowing scarlet. 



General Grant. — A splendid bedder ; scarlet. 



Gloire de Corheny. — Salmon pink, margined with white. 



lantlie. — The nearest approach to blue yet grown ; large rosy- 

 purple flowers. 



