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BEDDING PLANTS. 
planted in a rather dry situation. For an extended account of 
tlieir culture, see a late number of the ‘Florist’s Journal.’ 
Chcenostoma poly ant hum, although strictly an annual, is 
introduced here because it will be found to partake very largely 
of a more persistent character; it is a trailing plant, becoming 
completely covered with its pretty, rosy, lilac blossoms, young 
plants are readily procured from cuttings, which will be found 
the best mode of propagating, as it does not seed freely, these 
should be planted about a foot asunder, and will then completely 
fill the space allotted them; it requires the protection of the 
greenhouse through the winter, where, however, it will yield a 
return for the attention it may require, by continuing to bloom 
almost uninterruptedly. 
Cuphea. We mention this genus most particularly, for the 
purpose of pointing to two recent species, which promise to be of 
great assistance, not only to the flower garden, but as ever- 
blooming plants highly valuable for the conservatory at all seasons;'' 
they are C. miniata , a free-growing plant, with bright green 
medium-sized foliage, and pretty bright crimson flowers, about an 
inch long, produced on all parts of the plant; with this is the 
C. striyillosa, resembling the former in habit, and having rather 
smaller red and green flowers; it would be quite easy to have 
them in flower all the year round. They delight, when in pots, 
in a mixture of loam, leaf-mould, and peat, and are readily in¬ 
creased by cuttings. Another new species may be mentioned as 
being perhaps preferable to even these, for the same purpose is 
the C. platycentra figured in the present number. 
Delphinium. Every member of this genus possesses sufficient 
beauty to render it an object of interest to the flower gardener ; 
they vary very much in stature, between a single foot and from 
five to six feet. Blue is the prevailing colour, and it is generally 
of the most intense shade. The following are among the best: 
Barlowii, Elegans pleno, grandiflorum and its varieties, album, 
pleno, and Iverana ; they should be guarded from severe weather 
by potting in the autumn, and a place in the cold-pit through the 
winter. 
Fuchsia. This genus is so well known- as to need no remark, 
further than the suggestion to employ only the hardier old kinds 
for bedding, the more tender modern varieties being, from their 
