Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . uch work I colorthe plans to be nearly like the plants to be J T 1 1 FtOy 14. Same as Fin. used. I also always i;j_ f^f ivith the gnnotiisaim to have some sur- grouped in a more freeplus bedding plants ^™«?of kinds used for fear of any accident or missesafter they are planted. This work shouldbe done in good season. Men have been em-ployed to get out designs for beds withoutany knowledge of what they are to be carriedout with. But this is the material point. Itisaueasy matter to design
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . uch work I colorthe plans to be nearly like the plants to be J T 1 1 FtOy 14. Same as Fin. used. I also always i;j_ f^f ivith the gnnotiisaim to have some sur- grouped in a more freeplus bedding plants ^™«?of kinds used for fear of any accident or missesafter they are planted. This work shouldbe done in good season. Men have been em-ployed to get out designs for beds withoutany knowledge of what they are to be carriedout with. But this is the material point. Itisaueasy matter to design when you are not heldby the nature of things jou have to constructwith. But to do so is quite another thing. Concerning the use of novelties, I would sayno matter what they may be—trees, shrubs orflowei-s—all should be tested in the positionnear where they are to be grown before at-tempting any permanent work with I speak of novelties, I mean novelties,not things that are well known to every one. In planting I generally look about the neigh-borhood to see what succeeds the most natur-. The Cactus Dahlias. Within the half dozen years the nameCactus Dahlia has appeared in the florists cata-logues. Of this class there are two sorts de-scribed, Con-stance or Ariel,which is by nomeans a newvariety but onerarely cultiva-ted, and havingelegantlyshapeddead-white flow-ers, and the RedCactus DahliaD. Juaresii, anengraving ofwhich is here-with presented. It is the lastnamed sortwhich won forthis style theappropriatename of CactusDahlia. This isdue to the factthat the flowersof D. Jaurezii,aside from be-ing of a brilliantscarlet color,suggestive o fCactus blooms,are as to theirparts flat andpointed, quiteunlike those of the ordinary garden varieties. The floral partsare also never cupped and being of varyinglengths and overlapping each other, give to theheads an irregular appearance, wholly unusualto the common Dahlia, which it it be speciallynoted for a
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