ELOEISTS' FLOWEES, ANNUALS, 



AND 



SOET-WOODED PLANTS, 



ADAPTED FOR 



CONSERVATOET AND GEEENHOUSE DECOEATION. 



^.E tave deemed it more for the convenience of our 

 readers to collect together in one chapter what 

 remarks we have to offer on the subjects indicated 

 by the above heading. In most of them the varieties pro- 

 duced by cross-breeding and hybridising are so numerous, 

 and the differences are in many instances so very trifling, 

 as scarcely to be expressed in words, added to which, the 

 varieties themselves are so continually changing and giving 

 place in most cases to improved forms, that it would be 

 practically useless to attempt their description. Still, they 

 are of so popular a character, and so highly useful and 

 ornamental as inexpensive decorative plants, that our volume 

 would be very incomplete without them. Hence we have 

 given, under the following generic headings, such hints 

 regarding the cultivation of the subjects we have thought 

 it most important to allude to, referring our readers to 

 the annual trade catalogues for lists of the best current 

 varieties. 



