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BEDDING PLANTS. 
any, it seems hardly worth the trouble of preserving the roots. 
It should be sown in beds of light rich earth through any of the 
spring months, to flower in summer and autumn, and for early 
blooming, in September or October. 
The new species A. japonicum promises to be a useful plant 
in the flower-garden ; it has purple blossoms, and grows to near 
two feet in height. 
Antirrhinum . Of all the plants employed to decorate the 
garden, there are few to equal, and perhaps none to excel, the 
numerous varieties now cultivated of the Snapdragon ; they are 
little or no trouble, and present a mass of floral beauty from 
July till cut off by frosts; the average height is two feet, and 
from among the many now grown there can be no difficulty to 
select suitable colours for any position ; white, yellow, crimson 
and scarlet, with an endless mixing of two or more of these 
colours, together with spots, stripes, or blotches, prevail among 
them. The seed should be sown early in March, on a warm 
border, and the plants may be finally stationed in May; young 
plants struck in the autumn from lateral slips of the old speci¬ 
mens, will bloom a fortnight earlier than seedlings of the same 
year. Brightii, scarlet; Fowlii, scarlet and wdiite; Gigantea, 
crimson; Delicata, yellow and white; Lutea, bright yellow; 
Albiflora, white; Ibrahim Pacha, yellow, pink, and crimson 
stripes ; Youngii, white and crimson stripes; Fulgida, scarlet 
and yellow; and Luridum, reddish purple, are all good, and 
thoroughly distinct. 
Armeria cephalotes forms a very pretty bed, gay with rosy 
lilac flowers, produced in capitate heads on long slender foot¬ 
stalks, elevated above the foliage about six inches, the latter 
covering the ground. It should be preserved in pits through the 
winter, and is propagated by cuttings struck in the summer and 
autumn. * 
Bouvardia twphylla and splendens are well known and justly 
esteemed; their neat appearance and pretty scarlet flowers en¬ 
title them to a place in every garden ; they require to be planted 
in a peat bed. The greenhouse or cold pit must receive them 
w T hile dormant in the winter, and in the spring they should be 
started in heat, and increased by division or cuttings. 
Calceolaria integrifolia , and its varieties, rugosa, angustifolia , 
