ANTIRRHINUMS. 
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ANTIRRHINUMS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
The subjects of illustration chosen for the present occasion 
belong to a class of plants which, from their adaptability to all 
the purposes of out-door decoration, the ease with which they 
are cultivated, the infinite variety of colours they are made to 
afford, and their general neatness of habit, together with the long 
continuance of their flowers, have been so universally adopted 
and admired as to justify a repeated notice in our pages. 
Throughout the past summer, with the weather of a character 
sufficiently torrid to banish from the borders nearly all their usual 
occupants, one untarnished object of brilliant beauty was present 
with us from the commencement of the warm season till within the 
past fortnight, at no time deficient of interest, but ever remarkably 
rich, pleasing, and varied; need we add, it was a group of snap¬ 
dragons ! the number of flowers cropped from these plants was 
beyond calculation, still they came in such quick and constant 
succession as never to be missed, and when the eye, wearied of 
the surrounding aridity, rested on the cool deep green of their 
foliage, surmounted by the brilliantly gay or chastened colours of 
the flowers, a refreshing sense of relief was felt, quite inde¬ 
scribable ; Antirrhinums will in future be objects of much regard 
with us. 
To the gardener, anxious to maintain a good display of blossoms, 
and with but limited means to compass it, the selection of such 
only as are distinguished by a prolonged state of flowering for 
the filling of his beds and borders, is a matter of the first conse¬ 
quence, for unless this is attended to, much time and trouble will 
be expended to gain an unsatisfactory result. In such a position. 
Antirrhinums may be relied on with a certainty of attaining all 
that can be wished. 
Healthy young plants placed in a border of tolerably good soil 
in March, will begin to produce flowers in the following June, 
and continue to do so till October, and the only attention required 
in return will be an occasional watering and the removal of the 
decaying flower-stalks ; where it is desired to keep the plants in 
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