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part of a border bounding a flower-garden. They thrive and flower well in 

 any rich mould. The varieties which are best suited for bedding are — 



Hexdersoxii ; color, deep azure blue, with a white eye, growing from 

 two to three feet high. It may be regarded as the prettiest of the tribe 

 yet in cultivation, and flowers from June to October very profusely. If 

 planted about twenty inches apart, they will, in the season, spread and form 

 one mass of their beautiful bloom. 



Quadricolor is another . dwarf variety, the flower being, as its name 

 implies, a mixture of colors, viz., a light blue, lavender, and a shading of 

 light rose ; it is a free-blooming, fine variety for bedding. Its height is 

 from one to two feet. 



Wheeleri is a beautiful light blue, free-blooming and handsome. It is 

 a medium-sized double variety, of the bee kind. 



Aztjrea graxdiflora is another light blue Delphinium of the bee kind ; 

 it flowers very freely, and has a nice effect. 



Graxdiflora maxima is a dark blue ; a large flowering variety, suitable 

 for borders. 



Beauty of Charoxne is a good flower, resembling Hendersonii, but the 

 flower is smaller, and its habit is not so free-flowering. 



Magxificum, a capital variety for a bed ; color, azure blue, with a light 

 eye ; habit free-blooming, with medium-sized flowers ; grows from two to 

 three feet high. 



Azureum plexem, a pretty, light-blue double flower, and a free bloomer. 



Barlowii is a double flower, of a dark blue color ; a good, free-blooming 

 variety for the border. 



In addition to the above, there is a great variety of the ta??-growing 

 section, which deserve attention ; they should be grown in every garden, 

 however small. They are easily increased by division of the roots. When 

 a plant attains a large size, it may be taken up, parted, and replanted 

 immediately, or kept in pots in a cool frame during winter, and turned out 

 into the borders or beds where they are to flower the ensuing season. A 

 circular bed, with the tallest growing in the centre, and gradually declining 

 to the dwarfest, for the outer row has a singularly pretty appearance, and 

 will be ornamental throughout the summer. — Flor. Cabinet. 



Now that the progressive transformations which cause the production of 

 the corn Wheat from the grass JEgilops have become familiar to the well 

 informed cultivator, everything which throws light upon the tendencies among 



