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or flower-garden subjects. It was gathered at an elevation of up- 

 wards of twelve thousand feet, near Cuzco, in Peru, by Messrs. 

 Veitch's collector, and the plants grown in this country have 

 aheady given proof of their hardiness by withstanding seven 

 degrees of frost without the least injury. As to its position in 

 the garden, a well-made rockwork' with sunny exposure will cer- 

 tainly prove one of the best ; and it may also be used with good 

 effect in the more open parts of the hardy fernery. It is 

 hardy in the South of England and Ireland, and may prove so 

 everywhere in this country. 



BELLIS PERENNIS.— i^az'-y. 



Did we only find the Daisy in company with Androsaces on 

 the high Alps, or even as far out of our way as the lowest 

 Gentian, we would of course be enraptured with its neatness 

 of habit, and delicate purity of tone ; but the fact that it shows 

 not a trace of the coarse raggedness of the great composite 

 order to which it belongs, and combines the beauty of the 

 plants of the glaciers with the constitution of' lowland weeds, 

 would not cause me to mention it here were it not for its varie- 

 ties. The common Daisy is everywhere under our feet ; its 

 handsome double-flowered varieties are among the most effec- 

 tive and easily managed subjects in the system of spring garden- 

 ing which has of late become so popular. Nobody would 

 believe them capable of what they are, without seeing them 

 tastefully arranged in such a garden as Cliveden, and in rough 

 rockwork and borders they are quite as useful. There are 

 various varieties, from the quilled white and the double red to 

 the singular aucuba-leaved Daisy, with its leaves so richly stained 

 and veined with yellow, and the quaint hen-and-chicken Daisy. 

 A dozen or more varieties are in cultivation, and easily obtained, 

 and all bloom gloriously from early spring to the end of May. 

 The named and finer varieties may be increased very rapidly by 

 dividing them into very small pieces early in April, and replanting 

 them in rich ground, repeating the process several times during 

 the summer, if the object be to increase any of the scarce varie- 

 ties for the purpose of using them in quantity in the spring 

 garden. They are also frequently raised from seed, in which 

 way, moreover, a variety of colours are obtained. When grown 

 for the spring garden, they are removed to nursery beds in early 

 summer, and again planted in the flower-garden in autumn. I 



