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— is a fine plant to beautify a border — ^propagated by seed, 

 or by dividing the roots. 



PoLYANTHos. — Tliis perennial plant {Primula polyan- 

 thos) is hardy, has many showy flowers, and is nauch es- 

 teemed. There are many varieties. The plant blooms 

 best in a shady situation. It is best propagated by dividing 

 the roots. Polyanthos Narcissus is a very pretty perennial, 

 w^ell calculated to bloom in a parlour. It is bulbous-rooted, 

 and easily propagated by offsets. 



Pyrethrum Parthenium, commonly called double fe- 

 verfew, is a hardy perennial, and produces an abundance 

 of white flowers, and continues in bloom a long time. It 

 is easily propagated by the seed. 



Poppy — Papaver — is an annual plant, admired for its 

 great variety in size and in flower. The double are very 

 showy, but, like beauty, soon fade. It is a medicinal 

 plant, and easily cultivated. 



Purple hyacinth bean — Dolichos — is an annual run- 

 ner, producing large clusters of purple flowers, much ad- 

 mired. The seed should be planted early, and the plants 

 defended from the frost. 



Rose. — Rosa. — This favourite flower is worthy of all 

 the care and attention that can be paid to it. There are 

 many varieties, as to size, singularity, foliage, beauty, and 

 fragrance. Some catalogues enumerate more than five 

 hundred varieties. Messrs. G. Thorburn & Son have a 

 splendid collection in their green-house. Liberty Street, 

 New York. No class of plants yields more intrinsic de- 

 lights than this. It is unrivalled. To describe the beauties 

 and excellence of the various species would fill a volume. 



They may be propagated from seed, but, as the seed sel- 

 dom comes up till the second year, the usual mode of 

 propagation is by suckers, which come out near the old 

 stems, during the summer. The suckers, when planted 

 out, should be cut down to four or five inches of the ground. 

 The time for planting is either in the months of October 

 and November, or in April. As to the management, the 

 ground should be kept good, and dug every autumn. They 

 should, except when trained against a wall, be kept cut 

 down to a certain height, according to their natural size ; 

 for w^hen they get long stems and limbs, they produce few^- 

 er flowers. All the weak, dead or dying wood should be 

 pruned out close, without leaving any ugly stubs. " Tb-:! 

 yellow rose requires an airy situation and a gravelly soii^ 

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