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THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
Purple and Maroon: Indian Chief,\ Andrew Dodd, Lord 
Derby, George Wheeler, James Backhouse, Paradise Williams, 
High Sheriff. 
Lilac and Rose: Memorial, Juno, Lilac Queen, Criterion, 
Mrs. Boston. 
FANCY DAHLIAS.—BEST TWENTY-FOUR. 
Striped and Spotted: Lady Dunmore, Madame Nilsson, 
Purple Flake, Octoroon, Regularity, Sam Bartlett, Fbor, John 
Salter, Artemus Ward, Butterfly, Grand Sultan, Leopardess, 
Viceroy. 
Dark Tipped: Polly Perkins, Lady Paxton, Mrs. Crisp, 
Nora Creina, Pauline, Pluto, Queen Mob, Prospero, Fanny Sturt, 
Gem , Viceroy . 
BEDDING DAHLIAS.—BEST EIGHTEEN. 
Light: Queen of Whites, Alba floribunda nana. 
Yellow: Duke of Newcastle, Golden Bedder, Golden Ball , 
Leah. 
Scarlet: Beaute de Massifs, Scarlet Tom Thumb, Rising Sun. 
Rose and Lilac : La Belle, Rose Gem, Scarlet Gem, Blonde. 
Crimson and Purple: Tom Thumb, Crimson Gem, Royal 
Purple, Zelinda, Floribunda. 
Lobelia.— The magnificent plants known in gardens as 
herbaceous lobelias,” descendants of L. cardinalis, L. fulgens, 
and others, have never enjoyed the favour to which they are 
entitled, though at the present time they are comparatively 
unknown, as compared with the partial recognition of their 
merits a quarter of a century ago. The garden varieties are 
the perfection of border plants, and a few amongst them 
having distinctive purple, bronze, or claret-tinted leafage, as 
well as brilliant flowers of divers hues, may be employed as 
bedders with eminent advantage. In the cultivation of these 
fine plants some little skill and care are necessary, and there 
are two ways of managing, which may be termed respectively 
the gardener’s and the cottager’s methods. As the cottager’s 
is the most simple, let us begin with that. Some time early 
in the month of May a few plants are purchased and planted 
on a deep well-manured border in the full sun. If they are to 
make a mass, they may be a foot apart, but much better to 
put them in clumps of three each in the midst of lupins, del- 
