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EARLY BLOOMING PLANTS FOR FLOWER-BEDS. 
frame to the greenhouse, or to a close frame without bottom-heat : but if tall plants 
are more desirable, it will be better to place them in a working vinery or in the 
stove. In the latter situation they will grow long, and perhaps rather weak ; but 
if properly secured to stakes, and gradually inured to a cooler temperature before 
they are planted in their final situation, this will be no disadvantage, as they will 
speedily strengthen, and always retain their superior height over those grown in 
the greenhouse. 
Where a great show of bloom is indispensable in the greenhouse during winter, 
bushy specimens of L. mutahilis and L. arhorea^ three or four feet higli, will be 
found useful, and especially in large establishments, where room is a less formidable 
objection. Grown in pots sunk in a garden border till the middle of September, 
and then repotted and removed to the greenhouse, they will continue to flower till 
after Christmas, and probably, with careful attendance, till the return of spring. 
EARLY BLOOMING PLANTS FOR FLOWER-BEDS. 
While lately writing on the desirableness of using Pansies for filling the 
beds of a flower-garden in spring, we had occasion to observe that, if the same 
colours were sought to be preserved in each bed throughout an entire season, 
Pansies alone would not suffice for the purpose, as there is an utter absence of all 
shades of red in their blossoms. 
Since that time, we have been in communication with Mr. Edmonds, who 
furnished the chief part of our former details on the subject, and we now add 
a few additional particulars, which we have been enabled to glean ; convinced 
that all information on so popular a point must at once be esteemed. 
The main thing to be looked after in getting objects for flower-garden display, 
is, to secure those flowers which do not fade rapidly, and of which there is a 
tolerably lengthened succession on the same plant. This is what renders those 
half-hardy and semi-shrubby plants, that are so greatly admired during summer 
and autumn, of such extreme value to the culturist. And on the existence of 
this property, in a greater or less degree, (combined, of course, with a generally 
ornamental character,) the usefulness of a flower-garden plant may immediately 
be decided. It is possessed, to a very unusual extent, by Pansies ; and the 
plants now to be named are by no means deficient therein. 
Mr, Edmonds tells us that he has supplied the want of a scarlet colour 
amongst Pansies in his spring garden, with Turhan Ranunculuses and single- 
flowering Anemones. The latter he raises from seed, and allows to flow^er in the 
seed-bed, when he selects all those with scarlet flowers, and destroys the remainder. 
If sown in a tolerably rich soil, and not too thick, so that the leaves may spread 
and be fully exposed, a large supply of roots may soon be obtained, of suflicitnt 
