CHAPTEE YI. 



Bedding-out Plakts, Paistsies, Verbe^s-as, Heliotropes, 

 Feverfews, Etc. 



Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers! 



Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book! 

 Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers 



From loneliest nook.'' 



The yarieties of plants called by florists bedding-ont plants, are very 

 popular — and deservedly so. Their flowers present -a brilliant mess of 

 coloring all the summer, and their hues are richer than those of most 

 other flowers. ' 



Pansies are great favorites — they will grow in shady nooks where no 

 other flower can bloom — and their flowers continue from the earliest 

 spring until the latest autumn. Various and familiar are the names by 

 which the Pansy has been known for centuries. 



Gerard, who wrote a long description of it, says it was known 

 as Love-in-idleness, Jump-up-and-kiss-me, Three-faces-under-a-hood, 

 Heart's-ease, and Pansy. The Italians named it Nola farfalla (Violet 

 Butterfly). 



Lady Mary Bennet of England, afterwards Lady Monck, first intro- 

 duced the Pansy to the attention of the florists. Early in the present 

 century, she planted all the varieties of the Heart's-ease which she could 

 procure, and with the skillful aid of her gardener, new varieties were 

 produced from seed. 



About 1813, the well-known florist, Mr. Lee, of Vineyard Nursery, at 

 Hammersmith, saw Lady Mary's collection, and immediately perceived 

 the profit that would accrue from the cultivation of this flower. His 



