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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



given such an immense number of distinct handsome varieties adapted for greenhouse culti- 

 vation, as also out of doors. The results of crossing the Indian and Chinese species are seen 

 in the all but endless numbers of greenhouse kinds now so well known and extensively culti- 

 vated. To these may now be added those that have sprung from crossing the small hardy 

 North Chinese species arnoena with the ordinary greenhouse sorts, the seedlings from 

 which cross are so well adapted for forcing. And now we have every promise of the de- 

 ciduous hardy kinds giving us a greatly improved set of plants that will keep pace in the 

 out-door garden with what has been accomplished in the tender kinds. 



The cultivation of these hardy Azaleas is simple in the extreme. Peaty soil they like 

 best, but where this is not obtainable a good substitute will be found in rotten leaves, which, 

 if freely mixed with ordinary loamy soil, will be found to answer their requirements. 



