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A FEW FLOWERS 
planting with groups of other sorts, or as a single specimen on the grass or in the flower border. Canna gladiolaflora 
has beautiful pointed bluish-green leaves ; the flowers are a rich light orange and are borne in great profusion. 
Canna Noutonii is a fine new one, after the style of Canna Ehemanii in size of the flower, but of a fiery scarlet color ; 
the flowers are very large and produced very abundantly. The leaves are laciniated and of a dark green color. Certainly 
this is a very desirable variety. 
HERACLEUM GIGANTEUM — GIANT PARSNIP. 
Pansies. Favorites of all, and so easily and cheaply grown from seed that they should be used by the hundred and 
thousand in every suburban garden. 1 hey will not thrive during the extreme heat of summer, but bloom abundantly during 
the cool weather of spring and fall, and to have them in perfection during these seasons two sowings should be made — one 
about the latter part of August or first of September, in seed pans or shallow boxes filled with light rich soil plentifully 
mixed with leaf mold, and kept in as cool a place as possible. About the ioth of October the seedlings should be trans¬ 
planted into a nicely-prepared bed, placing them four inches apart. This bed should be protected during the winter by a 
cold-frame, which can be made by driving stakes into the ground about it, and on to them nailing boards eight or ten inches 
wide , this should be covered with glass, that is, hot-bed sash. By spring these seedlings will make nice young plants that 
will commence blooming just as soon as the weather is at all mild, and can be transplanted to any place desired by the first 
of April, and will yield an abundance of bloom until the extreme hot weather comes. A second sowing should be made in 
June, and then blooming plants can be had for planting in September and will bloom until late in the fall, and if the winter 
be mild, almost until Christmas. By shading, the cold-frame could be used to advantage during the summer for growing 
the young plants. 
