EVERT WOMAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER. 



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Dr. Lindley, very large floT\'er of perfect shape, rose-color petals of a 

 brighter shade, feathered with cherry-color; yery showy. 



Lady Franklin, white, slightly tinged with rose, striped and blazed 

 with carminate rose. 



La Francais, flower pure white, and very large, with small bluish 

 yiolet blotches ; very fine. 



Moliere, flower yery large; a bright cherry-red with large, pure white 

 stains. 



Mozart, bright rose, tinted with yiolet, blazed with dark carmine, with 

 pure white stains ; a yery beautiful yariety. 



Eoi Leopold, bright rose, tinged with orange, and stained with white. 



Stephenson, large flower, cherry-colored, striped with white lines; 

 splendid spike of flowers. 



Stella, perfect shaped flower, white ground, slightly tinged Tvith yel- 

 low and rose ; yery brilliant and showy. 



' Sir Walter Scott, yery bright rose-color on a white ground, striped 

 with carmine ; yery fine. 



Yicomtesse de Belleyal, delicate blush, stained with yiolet. 



Good yarieties can be purchased from $1.50 to 82.00 per dozen. 



Gladioli show to good adyantage if planted around rose bushes, or 

 among herbaceous perennials. They bloom late in the season, when 

 most of these flowers are past, and if well trained to stakes, which should 

 be set when the flower is planted, they will produce a charming effect. 

 They make yery nice house plants for window gardens ; six or eight 

 bulbs can be grown in a twelye-inch pot, and each kind tied to a thin 

 stake. They will bloom finely. If the stalks are cut off for yases or 

 bouquets, they will continue to bloom for a week or two, sending forth 

 fresh flowers daily. 



There is no bulbous root which giyes a greater yariety of colors in its 

 flowers, or better repays the care and attention bestowed upon it. AH 

 loyers of flowers must cultiyate a few of these desirable bulbs. 



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The Dahlia. 



The great yariety and beauty of its blossoms, and their profusion in 

 the later summer and autumn, when many of our handsomest flowers 

 are gone, make it well worthy of good culture. The Dahlia is a natiye 

 , of Mexico, and was found by Baron Humboldt grooving on the eleyated, 

 sandy plains of Mexico, fiye thousand feet aboye the leyel of the sea; 



