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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
FLOWER-BEACKETS. 
HAAE read “A. H.’s” description of her flower-baskets 
with much interest, and, as my flower-brackets are 
much admired, I think a few words about them may be 
acceptable. These brackets are made of plain wood, 
either half-circles or oval ; they are lined with zinc, and 
have two zinc supports to hang them up by. I cover them with 
virgin cork, wired on in pieces of unequal length, the edges of each 
piece rasped to make them fit together well. In these brackets I 
sometimes put bulbs, when in bloom, floating in water, and held up 
by moss, the effect being enhanced by tastefully trailing iv}% twined 
over the back or rising above the flowers, and apparently growing 
up the wall and encircling a picture. When bulbs are over, wild 
daffodils and ivy look lovely, arranged in different-sized medicine 
bottles and common champagne glasses ; and, of course, all cut 
flowers, mixed with ferns and creeping plants, look well. I also 
use a corner of the drawing-room, with a pretty table covered with 
china across it, in this way. A three-cornered tin fills the corner, 
the outside edge covered w'ith bark; this is filled with plants, espe- 
cially ferns, the tallest at the back ; and, if possible, some extra tall 
plant, such as the Calla, rises behind the table, being quite “ put 
in the corner,” where it has a most effective and beautiful appearance. 
Oddgest, Bath. C. H. 
BEDDEES EOR NEXT SEASON. 
BT JOHN WALSH. 
filTE bedding arrangements are now completed for this 
season, and before it is necessary to commence the for- 
midable task of propagating a stock of bedders for next 
year, we shall do well to consider how much the col- 
lection of bedding plants can be improved by the addition 
of some of the most meritorious of recent introductions. Amateurs, 
as well as other classes of cultivators, have their favourite bedders; 
but there are certain things which are essential in all gardens, and 
to this class belong the few subjects which it wall be my duty to 
direct attention. It will be well to observe also that there is a great 
advantage in considering this matter now, for plants purchased at 
once will yield a plentiful supply of cuttings, and a sufficient stock 
for producing a diitinct effect by next season may also be had. 
Procured late in the autumn, or in the spring, there will not, with 
but few exceptions, be time to do more than propagate a few for trial 
purposes, and consequently a season will be lost. 
Amongst the new golden-leaved bedders there are a few which 
demand our attention for their great value. The Golden Thyme, 
sent out under the name of Thi/mus citriodcrus auretis marginatus, 
is a real gem ; for it forms neat bands and lines, is easily kept in 
