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Leave a little depression, water the roots, and, when the water has disappeared, draw the dry earth over all. They will hardly shrink. You will have forwarded the season of flowering fully three weeks, and produced your flowers, even of the more hardy sorts, far cheaper than if you had sown the seed outside. You will also be able to grow many things usually bought as plants from the florists, such as veras verbena, pinks, daisy, pansy, etc. You may, early in July, have in full bloom China and other garden pinks, and nearly all the class that, sown outside, do not usually bloom until the second year. You may have balsams, candytuft, alyssum, mignonette, nasturtium, phlox, zinnias, morning glory, in splendid condition before your neighbors, who have sown in the open air, can see theirs among the weeds. A second crop of mignonette, candytuft, annual phlox, alyssum, balsams, etc., should, later, be sown inside to produce autumn bloom. In your hot-bed start gladiolus, dahlia, tigridias and other bulbs and tubers, and also such roots of perennials , including Bengal and other tender roses, as you have kept through the winter in boxes placed in a light cellar.

III. Select List of Flowers for General Cultivation. THE running notes below will give all the information necessary to the grower in addition to that already stated. Any respectable seed catalogue will give information as to special varieties.