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BORDER FLOWERS. 



Hypoxis. Hypoxis. 



Erecta. 



Pardanthus, Pardanthus. 



Chinensis. 



TiGRiDiA. Tiger-flower. 



Pavonla. 



g^** Many of the Orchideae are suitable for shady 

 borders, viz. the different genera of Orphrys, Orchis, Cy- 

 pripediura, Satyriura, Serapias, Neottia, Gymnadenia, 

 Aceras, Herminium, Listera, Epipactis, &c. 



Dahlia. Dahlia. 

 Frustranea, siiperflua. 



This is one of our most splendid autumnal flowers. 

 There seems to be no end to varieties obtainable from seed ; 

 and their cultivation is as easy as it is generally known. 

 The seed, sown early in spring, will flower in the end of 

 summer. The tubers must be taken out of the open ground 

 in the autumn, and kept in a dry place out of the reach of 

 frost in winter. In the early spring the tubers of the fa- 

 vourite kinds are divided, and put into pots sis inches 

 diameter, and kept in a house or frame till all danger from 

 frost is over, when they may be turned out in the borders. 

 They are readily and expeditiously propagated by taking 

 the first shoots which rise from the tubers and striking 

 them in a little heat. Such young plants produce the 

 handsomest flowers. They flower earlier, and grow more 

 dwarfish in the poorest soil; and if very large flowers are 

 desired, all the inferior branchlets must be thinned out. 



CAPE BULBS. 



Under this character are ranged Ixias, Antholizas, 

 Gladiolus, &c. almost all of which are delicate and diminu- 



