15G 
TIIE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
bed in February, or in a cold frame in April. As the best 
named varieties are cheap, the amateur will do better to 
obtain a good collection, and increase them by division, for 
seeds, however good the flowers from which they were ob¬ 
tained, invariably produce a large proportion of poor progeny. 
The only pyrethrums, in addition to the varieties of 
P. roseum, that are worth a place in the border are the 
double-flowering P. parthenium, and the large single white 
P. uliginosum . 
BEST EIGHTEEN PYRETHRUMS. 
Album roseum, Candidum plenum , Emily Lemoine , Herr¬ 
mann Stenger, Imperatrice Charlotte, Laciniatum plenum , 
Madlle. Bonamy , Michel Buchner , Monsieur Barral , Monsieur 
Calot, Mont Blanc , Nemesis , Paul Journu , Princess de Metier - 
mc7i, Purple Prince , Poseum bicolor , Pubrum plenum , The - 
misteri. 
Ranunculus (Buttercup).—Although “bachelors’buttons” 
are old favourites, we really cannot recommend any of the 
proper border ranuncu¬ 
luses, because of their 
coarse, weedy character, 
though we must confess 
a liking for the double 
varieties of P. bidhosus 
and P. bullatus, which 
the reader may elect, if 
he or she likes them. 
The florists’ ranuncu¬ 
luses, descended from P . 
asiatica , scarcely belong 
to the border, but we 
dare not ignore such 
splendid hardy plants, 
and so we will endeavour 
to do justice to them in 
a short paragraph. The 
highest eulogy we can pronounce upon them is, that they are 
the most perfect of all florists’ flowers in symmetry of form 
and perfection of colouring, and they are thoroughly hard}^ 
well-behaved plants, adapted for any good border. The cul- 
