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easily divided, and when once planted is of the weeds weedy. I should much 
like to see it effective ; once would satisfy. 
For most of the small Annuals, the last week in August or the first in Sep¬ 
tember will be a good time for sowing; some are better even a little later. When 
up, they should be pricked off into beds. If this cannot be done, they should be 
raised up slightly so as to break their roots, for the more they are stunted and 
hardened the better their chance of standing through the autumn and winter. 
Some of the better varieties can be put in boxes, which is a good plan, as they 
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are then more under control, and there are generally plenty of empties about a 
place in the autumn. 
Collinsias are excellent spring bedders, especially C. vernci and bicolor ; we 
have not succeeded with the white. The old Eschscholtzici for large beds stands 
well into spring and summer ; but Lasthenia californica forms the best yellow bed 
that can be found, and is perfectly hardy. Limnanihes is more of a straw-colour, 
and rather coarse in habit. Lupinus we find good for early cutting. Myosotis 
sylvatica and the white variety are sown in June. Few if any plants beat the 
fine old Nemophilas; the blue of A r . insignis is unmatched by anything I know, 
and no plant is so easy to manage, but this is one of the sorts that should be sown 
late. Saponaria makes good small beds, both pink and white. Silene ruberrima 
is an addition and gives variety, but is not so good as the S. pendula. Candytuft , 
of the Dunnettii variety, is as hardy as Honesty, and is a beautiful rich colour. 
The old Virginian Stock, Malcolmia mciritima , is known to every one; a good 
mixture with this, or even a good bed, is the Sweet Alyssum, Koniga maritima; 
it is rather surprising that more of this is not grown, both in spring and summer, 
for next to Mignonette it is effective in scenting every breeze that passes over. 
Viscaria and Schizanthus are not to be trusted out, but a box or pan of each, 
kept in a cold frame, will fill an ordinary bed or two. Many grow these for the 
conservatory, and well they repay the little care that is necessary, by adding, 
particularly in the case of Viscaria, a fine display of colour, especially when the 
sun is out. We have been and are trying other sorts, and if any one has been 
successful with sorts not named above, I, and no doubt many readers, would be 
glad to hear of them.—J. Fleming, Cliveden. 
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(^JfHOSE who delight in violets and violet-growing, especially in pots, should 
at this time carefully pot-up any medium-aged healthy plants of the Tree 
Violet they may possess ; that is, if they have a suitable place in which to 
maintain them through the winter and spring months. There is no place 
that is better adapted for them than one wherein Cape Pelargoniums may be 
grown and wintered safely. Hence any elevated shelf near the glass, and where 
air may be given freely and ungrudgingly, in any cool greenhouses, will suit them 
admirably. When the plants are taken up carefully and potted, without more 
injury to the roots than is unavoidable in performing the operation, the branches 
