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BEDDING PLANTS. 
Leschenaultia formosa and biloha may both be grown as 
bedding plants in situations where the air is pure and soil com¬ 
posed of peat; young free growing plants that have stood the 
winter in six-inch pots are most suitable for turning out, they 
make very handsome specimens by the autumn, and if desired, 
may be taken up to grow onwards in pots ; when this is intended, 
they should be surrounded with pieces of turfy soil, that the 
roots may be got whole on their removal from the bed. 
Lilium. For the larger beds and boundaries of the flower 
garden all the tall Lilies are well suited, particularly the varieties 
of speciosum ; the dwarf kinds, such as longijlorum, have a beau¬ 
tiful appearance when planted in the clumps of Rhododendrons 
and other similar shrubs, their white flowers seeming to gain 
intensity from the deep green of the foliage by which they are 
surrounded. 
Linaria. As a hardy, free-flowering genus, this may occasionally 
be admitted among bedding plants. The annuals should be 
sown in March rather thickly, as the object is to have a mass 
of bloom, and the plants are so accommodating as to bear 
crowding ; the same may be said of the perennial species, which 
will succeed, with but few exception^, when but little else could 
be had. "\\ e have even employed the common L. vulgaris, and 
with excellent effect, for it is covered with its pretty, bright 
yellow flowers all the summer and autumn. 
Linam flavum is an excellent plant for bedding, its large yellow 
flowers being very conspicuous; there is no trouble in increasing 
or preserving this if it is allowed the protection of a cold pit in 
winter. 
Lobelia. This genus is extensively adopted for flower-garden 
purposes, all its members being grown in some situation or other. 
Of the tall-growing kinds we prefer ignea, bright red ; atrosan- 
guinea , a variety of splendens, very deep crimson; grandiflora, 
of similar origin and colour; splendens, scarlet; syphilitica, 
blue ; speciosa, purple ; and coelestis, blue : these when bedded 
should stand in very rich soil, composed of fibrous loam and 
rotten hot-bed dung in nearly equal parts; they should have 
plenty of water when the flower-stems are rising, and must be 
carefully tied as they advance, or they are liable to become 
damaged bv wind. 
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