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lemon yellow ; King, pale rose ; Perfection, lilac ; Queen, 
blush ; Triumphant, buff and white ; Wm. Penn, large 
creamy white, yellow and red; Indica rubra, very dwarf, 
early red ; Angelina, rose ; Beauty, lilac ; Empress, pink ; 
Napoleon, crimson ; Mrs. Cope, crimson purple ; Mrs. Cam- 
erson, bronze. To grow these in perfection, they require rich 
light soil ; and about the end of this month the roots should 
be lifted, divided, and planted into fresh soil, either by giving 
them a new situation, or changing the earth they were in. 
Two or three stems together are quite sufficient. The 
flowers, by the above treatment, will be much larger, more 
double, and finer in colour; where they are wanted to grow 
low and bushy, top them in June, but not later than the 
first of July. Where the soil is rich, and the plant having 
only one stem, by topping it, makes a beautiful bush. They 
are in flower from the first of October until severe frost; 
thus beautifying our gardens at a season when they would 
be destitute of one single attraction. If the season be dry, 
to water them with liquid manure will add to their vigour. 
They are all natives of China, and greatly esteemed by the 
Chinese, who only allow a few blooms to come out on the 
top of each stem, thereby having the flowers much finer. 
Within these few years, hundreds of varieties of this 
winter flower have been produced from seed in Europe ; 
many of them very superb, having more luxuriant foliage 
and greater diversity of colour. 
Clematis, Virgin's-bower. A few species are good herba- 
ceous plants, of upright growth and blue flowers, C. integri- 
fblia; C. angusti folia ; and C. erecta ; they grow best in 
light soil. 
Coreopsis, chiefly native plants, and free-flowering; colour 
principally yellow; flowers rayed. C. tenui folia, C. verti- 
cilfdta, C. discolor, and C. tripteris, are the finest of the genus, 
and will grow in any common garden soil. 
Delphiniums. There are some showy border flowers of 
these, of strong growth. The leaves are much divided; the 
flowers in terminal spikes ; colour blue, purple, pink, white 
and yellow, with various shades. D. grandijibrum, and its 
varieties, are the best of the genus. D. intermedium, and 
its varieties, D. eldfum, Bee Larkspur, from the ringent 
part of the flower being very like a bee, and D. montd- 
num, are good varieties, and easily cultivated. When the 
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