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CASSELL'S POPULAR GAEDEXiXG, 



AnnTials. — There are many plants of annual 

 growth raised from seed, which are not mentioned 

 in our list, though they often prove most attractive 

 on rockeries. The reason for their omission is that 

 the plants named in oui^ select list are intended to 

 he permanent plants, and must necessarily he peren- 

 nials. To compensate for this omission we now 

 name the following, all of which are deserving of a 

 place on the choicest rockery : — 



Ageratums (various). 



,* lyssiT tn maritimum. 



Anemones (various). 



Antiri-hinum (dwarf varie- 

 ties . 



Arabis alpina. 



Aubriet'as (various). 



Begouias (various). 



Bellis (various). 



Galaudriuia umbellata. 



Candytuft (the dwarf an- 

 nual kinds). 



D .wniugia pulcliella. 



Collinsias (various), 



Convolvulus major & minor. 



Dianthus (many kinds). 



Eucharidium grandiflurum. 



Fenzlia diantliiflora. 



±1 eliclirysum (the dwarfer 

 kinds). 



Ice - plant (Mesemhryan- 



themum crystallinum). 

 Inopsidium acaule. 



Leptosiphon roseus. 

 Limnanthes Douglassi. 

 Lobelia (various). 

 iVEarigold (the dwarf kinds). 

 Mesembryanthemum cor- 



difolium variegatum. 

 Mimulus (various). 

 Myosotis (various ) . 

 xNTasturtium (the dwarf 



kin Is). 

 Nycterina selaginoides. 

 Nolaua paradoxa. 

 Nemopbila (various). 

 Pansies (varioiis). 

 Phacelia canipauulr.ria. 

 Portulaca (single and 



double). 

 Sabbatia campesti-is. 

 Schizopetalon Walkerii. 

 Silene pendula coiupacta. 

 Ta^retes signata pumila. 

 Viola (various). 

 Virginiau Stock. 



In the select list of permanent plants we have 

 heen particularly careful not to name one which is 

 not offered for sale by those English nurserymen who 

 devote special attention to these plants, and we have 

 heen equally careful to avoid plants of great rarity 

 and consequent deanaess. This rule has, doubtless, 

 caused tlic omission of some plants which the more 

 advanced amateur will desire to possess. The 

 nurserymen's lists, which are now very numerous, 

 will enable those who desire the costlier plants to 

 select them with ease ; hut our chief object, which 

 was to encourage a more general cultivation of 

 Alpine plants, would liave been in some degree de- 

 feated if we had sacrificed the interests of the many 

 to the fe'iv. 



Ferns will he found treated of fully in other pages. 



DECORATIVE USE OF ELOWEES. 



By James Hudson. 



PERSONAL DECORATIONS. 



BOUQUETS (or nosegays, using the old-fashioned 

 term for bunches of flowers) are very popular, 

 as indeed they deserve to he, with nearly all lovers 

 of flowers. "WTiether it he merely a few flowers 

 culled in a stroll around a garden, without any aim 

 at artistic arrangement in the placing of the same, 

 or whether certain particular flowers are chosen 

 f'~>r special occasions and of particular shades of 



colour, it matters not which or what the case may 

 he, either will be invariahly popular and meet with 

 approval when so arranged as to produce a good 

 effect. This can he done hy either hlending the 

 colours harmoniously together, or hy using those 

 that are of striking contrast in this respect. Bou- 

 quets can he effectively produced by indi-\ddual 

 genera of flowering suhjects alone. Thus, what 

 prettier effect, or more pleasing, either in point of 

 appearance or in perfume, than when using Roses 

 and Rose-huds and foliage without exterior aid ? 

 Violets, too, will make pretty houquets, using only 

 their own leaves. The Daff'odils or Narcissus re- 

 quire the addition of some other foliage than their 

 o^Ti to show them off to advantage ; for these we 

 would use some leaves of the Berhcns Aqnifuliuin^ 

 small forms of Ivies, or Fern. 



The single Chrysanthemums or Paris Daisies, also 

 called Marguerites, wall make very pretty and novel 

 houquets with the aid of the foliage of the fine- 

 cut-leaved variety with white flowers, and a margin 

 of Fern-fronds. Take, again, the Cai-nations and 

 Picotees ; these favourite garden flowers will quickly 

 form into an impromptu nosegay with a few shoots 

 of their own grassy growth alone, or by adding a 

 few spikes of Mignonette with an edging of Oak^., 

 leaved Geranium foliage. As another example, 

 which, if not composed of strikingly effective suh- 

 jects, would yet meet with approval from many w^ho 

 love sweet-scented flowers and foliage, take the light 

 and dark kinds of Heliotrope, the Mignonette, or 

 the Honeysuckle, and a few sprays of Sweet Pea, 

 with such foliage as the Sweet-hriar, the Lemon 

 Plant (Lijjpia citriodora) , and the scented - leaved 

 Geraniums. This, in the summer, could he easily 

 effected, as also with other common garden flowers. 

 The Irises throughout a somewhat lengthened 

 season can be tirrned to a good account in bouquet 

 work ; forming even by themselves a most haud- 

 some arrangement, with some tips of their leaves 

 (narrow kinds) and a few fronds of Ferns as a finish 

 to the same. Either Lily of the Valley or Astilhe 

 japonica spikes would he an appropriate addition to 

 the above, as indeed they are to almost all bouquets. 



Less Common Flowers. —There are several 

 flowers from what may be termed " out-of-the-way 

 plants" that are pretty for arranging in houquets; 

 such, for instance, as Lachenalia tricolor, and other 

 allied species, Tritdia Kuijtora, JLUiuui ncapoJitamim 

 (which is free from the unpleasant odour pervading 

 most species), A)ithcricum Liliastnm [Paradisia Lili- 

 astrum), Tritonia aiirca {Crocosmia aurca), Leucojnm 

 (vstivum and L. rernum (the Snowflakes), Schizostylis 

 coccinea, Si^yrinchum hcrmndiannm, Ncriiie sar>nensis 

 (Guernsey Lily), Ixias and their allies, with single 



