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the same flower again to a certainty, because the seed do not, except by 

 chance, produce flowers like those of the mother plant. 



Tuberose. — This is a bulbous-rooted plant that sends up a beautiful 

 and most fragrant flower. But, even in England, it cannot be brought 

 to perfection without artificial heat in the spring. If got forward in a 

 green-house, or hot-bed, and put out about the middle of June, it would 

 blow beautifully in America. It is a native of Italy, and the roots are 

 brought to England, and sold there in the shops. It is propagated and 

 managed precisely like the hyacinth, which see. 



Tulip. — Beds of tulips vie with those of carnations and auriculas. 

 They are made "shows" of in England, and a single root is sometimes 

 sold for two or three hundred guineas. And, why not ; as well as make 

 shows of pictures and sell them for large sums ? There is an endless 

 variety in the colors of the tulip. The bulbs, to have the flowers fine, 

 must be treated like those of the hyacinth. The tulip may be raised 

 from seed ; but it is, as in the case of the hyacinth, a thousand to one 

 against getting from seed a flower like that of the mother plant. 



Violet. — ^This is one of the four favorites of the spring in England. It 

 is a little creeping plant, that comes on banks under the shelter of warm 

 hedges. The flower is so well known to excel in sweetness, that " as 

 sweet as a violet" is a phrase as common as any in the English language. 

 There is a purple and a white. Abundance of seed is borne annually 

 by both ; and the plant is perennial. If you propagate from seed, the 

 flower does not come till the second year ; but one plant, taken from an 

 old root, will fill a rod of ground in a few years. There is a little plant 

 in the woods of Long Island, with a flower precisely like that of the 

 purple violet; but the leaf is a narrow oblong, instead of being, as the 

 English is, in the shape of a heart ; the plant does not creep ; and the 

 flower has no smell. 



Wall-Flower. — It is so called, because it will grow, sow itself, and 

 furnish bloom in this way, by a succession of plants, forever, upon old 

 walls, where it makes a beautiful show. It bears abundance of seed, 

 plants from which produce flowers the second year. Some come double 

 sometimes. If you wish to be sure of double flowers, you must prop- 

 agate by slips of double-flowering plants. There are the yellow and 

 the mixed, partly yellow and partly red. All have a delightful smell, 

 blow early, and are generally great favorites. I am afraid this plant, 

 even with covering, will not stand the winter out of doors in America, 

 unless in the south front of a building, and covered too in severe wea- 

 ther ; for, even in England, it is sometimes killed by the frosts. 



The following condensed list of flowering plants and shrubs copied 

 from "The Garden," will be found valuable and reliable: 



HABDT ANNUALS. 



1. Blue Flowered Argeratum (Arfferatum Mexicanum). — Color, blue; 

 height, one foot ; in bloom all the season. 



2. Sweet Alyssum {A calycina). — White ; fragrant ; six inches ; all 

 season. 



3. Love Lies Bleeding {Amaranthus candatus). — Red and yellow; 

 summer. 



