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THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
Zonals. The best for bedding are Imperatrice Eugenie , Queen 
of Hearts, Italia TJnita. 
Bronze Zonals are, for the most part, vigorous growers, 
and a few of them are attractive as bedders. Many that are 
extremely fine in pots become either too green or too brown 
when planted out, and, therefore, it is important to select them 
with judgment. The best are J Donnie's Princess of Wales , 
Imperatrice Eugenie , Countess of Kellie , Waltham Bride , Mul¬ 
berry Zone , Egyptian Queen , JDulce of Edinburgh , Mrs . Lewis 
Lloyd . 
Golden Selfs. —These are the most valuable of all the va¬ 
rieties for bedding where a distinct yellow or sulphur-green is 
required, as they present, in the mass, only one tone of colour, 
w r hereas the golden and silver zonals (tricolors), and the 
bronze zonals (bicolors), tend more or less to produce a mixed 
effect, wanting in unity and decisiveness. It must be admitted 
that a good bed of either of the classes just named is most 
beautiful when we stand near it and look down upon its rich 
mosaic of colours ; but for a more distant view and for a dis¬ 
tinct chromatic effect the golden seifs are unsurpassed, and 
are especially valuable for leaf embroidery, if the trusses are 
constantly pinched out before the flowers open. In this 
section the following are splendid bedding plants: Meridian 
Sun , Golden Glory , Crimson Banner (this has lovely magem a 
coloured flowers, and makes a remarkably rich bed if it can 
be allowed to flower), Jason , Golden Fleece , Little Golden 
Christine . The last is a miniature plant suitable for edgings. 
Golden Edged. —These have a more distinct green disk 
than the golden seifs, in which the disk is so inconspicuous 
that we regard it as non-existent. The two classes might, 
indeed, be fused into one, because it is impossible to draw a 
sharp line between them ; but the division is convenient, and 
is founded on degrees. The best in this class is a very fine 
old variety, which many cultivators condemn because they 
cannot grow it. But those who can manage it know it to be 
invaluable. Perhaps the mention of Golden Chain may carry 
many a reader back to pleasant remembrances of scenes and 
circumstances in days gone by, when the bedding system was 
in its infancy, and the hand that now holds the book was 
firmer in its grasp and readier for action in outdoor industry 
than now. But gushing is not allowable in a work of this 
■sort, and so we quit the “ pleasures of memory to remark 
