ON florists' flowers. 



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The garden varieties in all the above sections are very numer- 

 ous, and are being added to year after year. Almost every florist 

 of any pretensions, publishes lists of the best varieties, and these 

 are being altered every season, so that it is needless to give 

 descriptive lists in this place. 



Culture. —The methods of saving seed and raising seedlings 

 have been already described. We will now deal with propagation 

 by cuttings, which is the usual way of obtaining a stock of 

 plants. The tubers which have been preserved during the winter 

 in a dry place, where frost cannot penetrate, should be planted 



Fig. 34. — Pompone Dahlia Little Sweetheart. 



in boxes, in February, and placed in a hothouse where there is 

 a moderate temperature. They will soon begin to grow. As 



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