266 THE PHILADELPH IA FLORIST. [Jan'y. 



f}J pots to the top, allowing the plants plenty of space to grow without ST 

 being crowded. All that they now require is water when necessary? °{~ 

 and liquid manure may be given occasionally, looking them over now i 

 and then to see that none of the shoots require tying up. On the ap- 

 proach of frost, put them into a greenhouse, or some other sheltered 

 place where plenty of light and air can be given, and in a short time 

 they will prove to the cultivator that his labor has not been expended 

 in vain. He will have no plants eight feet high with a few green 

 leaves at top, and here and there a solitary flower; but handsome, 

 bushy plants, clothed with foliage to the pots and covered with such a 

 profusion of flowers that he will scarcely recognise his old eight feet 

 favorites in their transformed state. 



The different sorts I intend to recommend are those that have come 

 under my own notice, and are well worth the attention of every lover 

 of this flower, many of the newly introduced sorts being very hand- 

 some in form, almost to be compared to the famed .Ranunculus of the 

 old world, and very little inferior in point of color. The following 

 Pompones are deserving a place in every collection : Bizarre, prim- 

 rose, yellow ; D^or, golden yellow ; Saturn, yellow, very compact ; 

 Mignonette, yellow, shaded with bronze, very dwarf; Cybele, bright 

 yellow, slightly bronzed; La Miniature, orange yellow; Compactum, 

 pure white ; Pompone, white ; Lartay, dark rose ; Renoncule, pale rose, 

 white centre ; Elegante, rosy white ; Perfecta, delicate rose, shaded 

 with white ; Paquerette, white, shaded with pink; Horatius, white, 

 tinged with rose ; Henriette Chauviere, white, tipped with pink; Har- 

 riet Lelois, carmine, white centre, very dwarf; La Liliputienne, buff 

 and orange. Among tall sorts the following are first rate — Temple of 

 Solomon, large yellow; Annie Salter, rich yellow; Solon, compact yel- 

 low; Neplus ultra, white ; Marshal JV'ey, orange and pink ; William 

 Tell, orange and buff; Baron de Salamon, lilac ; Mount Etna, red and 

 brown ; Grand Napoleon, ciimson ; Mrs. Cope, deep red ; Vortigene, 

 dark crimson ; Emilie Tkerese, yellow, tipped with red; Rois des Cra- 

 moisies, pure crimson ; Queen, blush. 



As many of our friends will not be disposed to make such a collec- 

 tion as the sorts named, although there are a great many in cultivation 

 that I have not mentioned ; yet from the varieties given they will be 

 able to make a first rate selection, and by attending to the directions 

 given, they wilt be able to adorn their greenhouse or parlor window 

 when the merciless frost has laid low all the gems of the flow 7 er plots ; 

 for when all is desolate without, their delicate flowers will speak of 

 a coming spring, and will form a fitting subject for those w r ho can ad- 

 mire the beautiful in nature. k ' FIorticola.' 



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