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to learn the art of arranging the flowers for the lawn or 
garden; and such as have a correct taste for the colors, 
will probably be the most expert. 
The most suitable plants for bedding are the following: 
Portulacas ; white, lemon, orange, scarlet, and crimson. 
Verbenas ; scarlet, rose, white, purple, and blue. Helio- 
tropes ; lilac, and blue. Petunias ; pure white, crimson, and 
variegated. Hschscholizia; orange. Drummond’s Coreop- 
sis; yellow. Geraniums ; scarlet. Pyrethrum, or Double 
Fever-few; white. Mexican Ageratum,; pale blue. 
Dwarf Coreopsis ; dark brown, brown with yellow edge, 
yellow. Drummond’s Phlox ; crimson, scarlet, rose, and 
white. Stock Gillyflowers ; Dwarf Phloxes, and many 
other plants of taller habits appear to great advantage 
when planted in masses in the shrubbery border or lawn, 
where the latter is extensive. 
DOUBLE FLOWERS. 
Many botanists do not approve of double flowers or 
hybrids: they see no beauty in them, it brings into con- 
fusion the regularity of their classification, and therefore 
regard them as monsters, as indeed they really are. By 
high cultivation, the stamens of the flower are converted. 
into petals, to the great delight, in most cases, of the florist. 
In what estimation, in the eye of the florist, would a single 
rose be held, in comparison with a full double perfect 
variety, or a single Aster beside an improved Pmony- 
flowered one. The fragrance would be tlhe same in the 
rose, double or single; but it would be like going back to 
