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then pot or box them off, or sow in February and hurry 
their growth. At first they are slow growers, and in 
summer or winter love warm quarters. 
In addition to the above, we have many more kinds of 
plants in bloom just now; for instance, Chinese hibiscus, 
Cape plumbago, abutilons, Brazilian cassias, begonias, 
speciosa, and other young fuchsias, pink justiceas, and 
some other seasonable tender plants; cypress vine, Lind- 
heimer’s gaura, cockscombs, Chinese pinks, portulacas, 
Cedronella cana, creeping sanvitalia, dark purple cosmos, 
cannas, and some other annuals or plants treated as such ; 
Japanese anemones, speciosum, tiger and Maximowicizi’s 
lilies, fiery pokers, Russian statices, monkshoods, heli- 
opsis, mist flower, bee-balm and other perennials. Some 
scattering showy clematis blooms, together with Pitcher’s 
purple, the Texas red, the Virginian white, and the Hima¬ 
layan yellow clematises ; the climbing hempweed, Japan¬ 
ese honeysuckle, and remnants of the trumpet creeper, 
as hardy vines. Among shrubs, Chinese tamarix, al- 
theas and panicled hydrangeas are very gay and con¬ 
spicuous, and Lespedeza bicolor var. isn’t fully out in 
bloom yet. Wm. Falconer. 
