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CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. 



Annuals. — There are many plants of annual 

 growth raised from seed, which are not mentioned 

 in our list, though they often prove most attractive 

 on rockeries. The reason for their omission is that 

 the plants named in our select list are intended to 

 be permanent plants, and must necessarily he peren- 

 nials. To compensate for this omission we now 

 name the following, all of which are deserving of a 

 place on the choicest rockery : — 



Ageratums (various). 



Alyssnm maritimum. 



Anemones (various). 



Antirrhinum (dwarf varie- 

 ties). 



Arabis olpina. 



Aiibrietias (vaxious). 



Begonias (various). 



Bellis (various). 



Calandrinia umbellata. 



Candytuft (the dworf an- 

 nual kinds). 



Downingia pulchella. 



CoUiusias -(various). 



Convolvulus major & minor. 



Dianthus (many kinds). 



Eucliaridium grandifiorum. 



Fenzlia diauthifiora. 



Helichryaum. (the dwarf er 

 kinds). 



Ice - plant {Mesembryan- 

 themum crystallinum). 



Inopsidium acaule. 



Leptosiphon roseus. 

 Limnanth.es Douglassi. 

 Lobelia (various). 

 Marigold (the dwarf kinds). 

 Mesembryanthemum cor- 



difolium variegatum. 

 Mimulus (various). 

 Myosotis (various). 

 Nasturtium (the dwarf 



kinds). 

 Nycterina selaginoides, 

 Nolana paradoxa. 

 Nemophila (various). 

 Pansies (various). 

 Phacelia campanularia. 

 Portulaca (single and 



double). 

 tSahbatia campestris. 

 Schizopetalon 'Walkerii. 

 Silene pendula comjtacta. 

 Tagetes signata pumila. 

 Viola (various). 

 Virginian Stock. 



In the select list of permanent plants we have 

 been particularly careful not to name one which is 

 not offered for sale by those English nurserymen who 

 devote special attention to these plants, and we have 

 been equally careful to avoid plants of great rarity 

 and consequent deamess. This rule has, doubtless, 

 caused the omission of some plants which the more 

 advanced amateur will desire to possess. The 

 nurserymen's lists, which are now very numerous, 

 will enable those who desire the costlier plants to 

 select them with ease ; but our chief object, which 

 was to encourage a more general cultivation of 

 Alpine plants, would have been in some degree de- 

 feated if we had sacrificed the interests of the many 

 to the ferv- 



J'erns will be found treated of fully in other pages. 



DECOEATIVE USE OF ELOWEES. 



By James Hudson. 



PERSONAL DECORATIONS. 



BOUQUETS (or nosegays, using the old-fashioned 

 term lor hunches of flowers) are very popular, 

 as indeed they deserve to he, with nearly aU lovers 

 of flowers. Whether it be merely a few flowers 

 culled in a stroU around a garden, without any aim 

 at artistic arrangement in the placing of the same, 

 or whether certain particular flowers are chosen 

 for special occasions and of particular shades of 



colour, it matters not which or what the case may 

 be, either will be invariably popular and meet with 

 approval when so arranged as to produce a good 

 effect. This can be done by either blending the 

 colours harmoniously together, or hy using those 

 that are of striking contrast in this respect. Bou- 

 quets can be effectively produced by individual 

 genera of flowering subjects alone. Thus, what 

 prettier effect, or more pleasing, either in point of 

 appearance or in perfume, than when using Eoses 

 and Kose-buds and foliage without exterior aid? 

 Violets, too, will make pretty bouquets, using only 

 their own leaves. The Daffodils or Narcissus re- 

 quire the addition of some other foliage than their 

 own to show them off to advantage ; for these we 

 would use some leaves of the Berberis AquifoUum, 

 small forms of Ivies, or Fern. 



The single Chrj-santhemums or Paris Daisies, also 

 called Marguerites, will make very pretty and novel 

 bouquets with, the aid of the foHage of the fine- 

 cut-leaved variety with white flowers, and a margin 

 of Fern-fronds. Take, again, the Carnations and 

 Picotees ; these favourite garden flowers will quickly 

 form into an impromptu nosegay with a few shoots 

 of their own grassy growth alone, or by adding a 

 few spikes of Mignonette with an edging of Oak- 

 leaved Geranium foliage. As another example, 

 which, if not composed of strikingly effective sub- 

 jects, would yet meet with approval from many who 

 love sweet-scented flowers and foliage, take the light 

 and dark kinds of Heliotrope, the Mignonette, or 

 the Honeysuckle, and a few sprays of Sweet Pea, 

 with such foliage as the Sweet-briar, the Lemon 

 Plant {Lippia citriodora), and the scented - leaved 

 Geraniums. This, in the summer, could he easily - 

 effected, as also with other common garden flowers. 

 The Irises throughout a somewhat lengthened 

 season can be turned to a good account in bouquet 

 work; forming even by themselves a most hand- 

 some arrangement, with some tips of their leaves 

 (narrow kinds) and a few fronds of Ferns as a finish 

 to the same. Either Lily of the VaUey or Astillie 

 japonica spikes would be an appropriate addition to 

 the above, as indeed they are to almost aU bouquets. 



Less Common Flowers.— There are several 

 flowers from what may be termed " out-of-the-way 

 plants" that are pretty for arranging in bouquets; 

 such, for instance, as Laehenalia tricolor, and other 

 allied species, TriteKa imijlora, Allium neapolitamm 

 (which is free from the unpleasant odour pervading 

 most species), Antherioum Liliastruni {Paradisia Lili- 

 astrum), Tritonia aurea {Crocosmia aurea), Lemqjum 

 eestivum and L. vernmn (the Snowflakes), Schizostylia 

 coccinea, Sisyrinchum liermudiamm, Nerine sarniensis 

 (Guernsey Lily), Ixjas and their allies, with single 



