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the open border as soon as the weatlier iDecomes settled in spring. 

 There are flowers of several shades of color, white striped with 

 blue or violet, rose color, and Hlac, and shades of bright and 

 dark red. 



The Dolichos or Hyacinth Bean. — ^A very vigorous 

 climber, attaining a height of twenty feet in a season. The 

 flowers are purple, produced in spikes, and succeeded by shining 

 purple pods. There is a white-flowered variety, but it is not as 

 showy as the purple. It wiU. not bear frosts, and the beans 

 should not be planted before the ground gets warm. 



The Goueds. — These are all tender Annuals, and require 

 much the same treatment and soil as the Cucumber. Many ol 

 them are very ornamental. Some are yellow and green, striped 

 with cream color ; or half green and haK yeUow, striped with 

 cream; or orange and red, or lemon-yellow, or orange-colored, 

 &c., &c. 



The Sweet Pba.-^H the seed be sown as soon as the ground 

 can be worked in spring, this favorite cUmber will begiu to bloom 

 about the first of July. The seed should be sown about foui 

 inches deep in good soU,' and the plants treated in the same 

 manner as the common garden Pea. In order to keep up a 

 profusion of bloom the pods should be gathered often, allowing 

 only enough to ripen to supply seed for another year. The 

 flowers are very fragrant, and of several colors, scarlet, scarlet 

 striped with white, purple striped with white, rose and whit«>, 

 white and pink edged with blue, &c. 



The Tropeolum. — There are several varieties of the Tropeo- 

 lum. They are all showy and profuse bloomers, producing flowers 

 of several briUiant colors, as scarlet, dark orange, dark crimson^ 

 yellow, and some striped and spotted. Tropeolum Majus, and 

 its varieties, grow well in rich sandy soil; the seed may be 

 sown in the open ground when the weather becomes settled, oi 

 plants may be forwarded by sowing in a frame, and afterward? 

 transplanted. Tropeolum Peregrinum is the well-known Canary 

 Mower, producing an abundance of little canary-colored blossoms 



