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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
Belgian varieties. The Pansies of all sections are 
charming plants, remarkable for the richness of 
their colours, and their close compact habit. 
They flourish in a rich loamy soil, and may be used 
in beds by themselves, or as a carpet beneath taller 
plants. The self-coloured kinds of Tufted Pansy are 
exceedingly popular for treatment in this way. Unless 
choice varieties are to be kept pure and true to name, 
plants are easily raised from seeds. These may be 
sown in shallow drills in the open ground in finely 
prepared soil about June or July, and by the end of 
September the young plants will be large enough to 
transplant into the positions in which they are to 
blossom the following year. Named varieties may 
have cuttings of the basal shoots taken off during 
the summer months and inserted in a shady border. 
They will soon root in sandy soil, and may be trans- 
planted during September. (See Plate 6, figs. 20-22.) 
ZINNIA elegans.— A showy hairy-stemmed annual, 
1 to 2 feet high, with ovate heart-shaped stem- 
clasping leaves, and flowers varying in colour from 
scarlet to crimson, rose, buff, salmon, or white. In 
addition to the numerous tall varieties, there is a 
dwarf er group of “ Pompons ” which grow about 6 to 
9 inches high, and have flowers of various colours. 
Z. Haageana is similar in habit to Z. elegans, but has 
smaller bright orange or yellow flower-heads. The 
forms of both species are easily raised from seeds 
sown in gentle heat in March, the young plants being 
put in the open ground at the end of May or in June. 
