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to limit tlie marvellous range of colour, and the almost endless variety of its forms 
of marking. I have often thought upon this, and the more I have thought, the 
more I have desired to retain in its widest extent this beautiful variety. From 
the narrowest stripe of crimson and purple and white to the broadest band of 
rose or purple or scarlet, there is beauty in all. No doubt the narrowest of 
narrow markings, however brilliant, do tend to suggest stringency and confusion ; 
but this will only occur in an extreme degree, if the petal forming the ground of 
these narrow markings be also narrow, and then it follows that the fault is rather 
of form than of the character of the marking. And so also of colour. 
It has pained me to observe how some (not many, I am thankful to believe, 
of my brother florists) will persist in limiting their approval to certain shades of 
colour. For a long time one of the most beautiful of the classes of the Carnation— 
the pink and purple bizarre—found no acceptance among the florists of the North, 
and even yet it is looked upon with disfavour by a few. Granting, colour being 
secondary, it is a subject on which tastes may legitimately differ, I can imagine 
nothing more beautiful than the rich colouring of a Lord Milton or a Lord Eaglan, 
C.B.’s, contrasted with and added to by the delicacy of a Sarah Payne or flowers 
of an even yet paler hue, provided with that paler hue the flowers possess all the 
high quality I have insisted upon ; and I venture to say it will be found, as a rule, 
that the higher the education of the taste, the readier is the acceptance of and 
the larger the admiration for the beautiful variety offered us by Nature, in her 
wondrous diversities of colour and shades of colour.—E. S. Dodwell. 
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FLOWERS. 
'FTER the flowering of Polyanthuses^ Primulas, and Auriculas, they may 
be divided and planted-out again in beds or borders of good soil, deeply 
dug, and enriched with plenty of moist manure. Irises, and many other 
border-flowers that were lifted and potted for flowering in-doors, should 
be planted-out. Generally speaking, all so-called bedding-stuff will be mostly in 
its summer quarters, with the exception of what are called sub-tropical plants ; 
these may be put out as the weather permits, now and again, gradually plunged, 
or otherwise, as is most convenient. Where a few of the Palms do well, and also 
the Draccenas, that is to say, where the wind—which is the great drawback to 
their well-doing out-of-doors—has no effect on them, these may be plunged here 
and there in as effective a way as possible. Nothing looks worse in a flower-garden 
than tattered-leaved Palms, and other sub-tropical plants in a half-starved con¬ 
dition ; and to attempt to put out anything that has been grown in heat all winter, 
and is in any way in a drawn, flabby state, would be a mere pretence at show, and 
worse than all, labour in vain. Yuccas, Agaves, and plants of this sort will stand a 
good deal of wind, and may be used effectively in vases and central sections of 
the flower garden. Camias do well when put out into beds, with the surroundings 
well protected with evergreens. After Sedums have done flowering, new carpet¬ 
ings may be established in those places that have been left for this purpose. 
Nothing sets off early-flowering bulbs better than these modest-tinted Sedums ; 
they should be dibbled thickly into the beds two or three inches apart only, when. 
