Candytuft

Universally known and cultivated, and considered indispensable for cutting. All the varieties look best in beds or masses. Seed sown in the autumn produces flowers early in spring; when sown in April, flower from July to September, and some of the sorts till frost comes. All the varieties are hardy, and easy to cultivate. Single plants transplanted look well, and bloom profusely. Hardy annual; one foot high.

Chrysanthemum

The following are the old garden varieties, producing flowers white, yellow, and variegated, single and double. They flower in autumn, and are desirable where there are large collections, as they are brilliant and striking. The single sorts are quite as handsome as the double. Hardy annual; one and a half to two feet high.

Chrysanthemum, coronarium, double white.

Chrysanthemum, coronarium, double yellow.

Chrysanthemum, Burridganum, crimson, white center; single.

Chrysanthemum, coronarium, mixed.

Dahlia

This exceedingly beautiful genus comprises an almost endless number of varieties, all more or less showy in the flower garden in autumn when most other flowers have faded. They are all of easy cultivation, growing freely in almost any soil, from seed sown in spring. The seed should be sown in shallow pans, in March, and the seedlings transplanted to small pots. As soon as danger of frost is over, plant out, one foot apart. These plants will make tubers, which should be taken up in the fall and kept through the winter in a cool, dry place, away from frost, and planted out in the spring, when they will blossom the following autumn. New varieties are constantly being produced from seed, some of them of exquisite beauty.

Fuchsia

Well-known, half-hardy, perennial, deciduous shrubs worthy a place in every garden. The varieties are now numbered by hundreds, and some are exceedingly beautiful. They are easily grown from seed, and as cuttings; and from seed many improved varieties are obtained. Sow in March, in shallow pots; prick out in crocks four inches in diameter, when of convenient size, where they can continue to grow till they bloom. As soon as they have flowered, select such as have good points, and change into larger pots. When frost appears, protect the plants.

Heliotrope

Highly valued for the fragrance of their flowers, and duration of bloom, and are to be met with in most gardens. They succeed in any rich, light soil, and cuttings of the shrubby kinds, taken off while young, strike readily. Half-hardy perennial; one foot high.

Mignonette

A. well-known hardy annual, producing dense, semi-globular heads of exceedingly fragrant flowers, borne on spikes from three to six inches long. Is in bloom nearly the whole season, and the perfume is so fragrant that the whole atmosphere around is perfumed. No garden should be without it. If sown at intervals during the spring and early summer, it will be in bloom till killed by the frost. Seeds sown in autumn will bloom early in spring. Hardy annual; perennial if protected; one foot.