There are so many thousands of varieties of bedding plants in cultivation, that amateurs may well be perplexed in attempting to make choice among them. Having for many years past made it a practice to visit and carefully inspect all the great parks and gardens where bedding is carried out with the greatest spirit, and having several large families of bedders always under my eye, I can, perhaps, as well as anybody, direct attention to a few of the most useful bedding plants obtainable for gardens. I shall now enumerate a few of the most telling flowers.

A Few Of The Most Effective Flowering Bedders #1

To those who were bedding out and sought new things as well as old, this must have been a valuable record, and I only want to add, that when this reaches your readers there will yet be time for planting out of Geraniums, Lantanas, etc., to make gay the autumn. Where there is room, no plant gives more of show than the Lantana, and I plant freely of it in its different varieties.