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Show L FTW LATE FLOWERS. Il I send you enclosed in a, little box a few of the iH i late flowers 1 have now, September i6th, in bloom. HH I hc most brilliant bed I have on my place tliu H double Portulaca, and 1 think every plant in-the flH I bed is quite double. I must, however, h.ive aken H out about one-quarter of the plants as soon as the JH first flower appeared, and proved single. These I transplanted to a little vacant bed. anil not one ' HH died ; when they became Older many ;f - Vliem .B E S.ng-e & Double I'ortulaca, perfection. I-find these do bo better, also, if the plants are little 1 late. They are not easily distroyed liy cold. Last autumn I had fine flowers after a good deal of i frost. The White Candy tuft will bear hard frosts, jH 1 1 had it looking well, in the garden until the doth of November in Central Michigan. -nH The Japan Pink I also find bears frost. H Della. in Vick's Monthly Magazine. In our opinion, there is nothing that enhances the beauty of a home so much as a neat .and. at. - Nl tractively arranged little flower garden. In opr fH climate a collection of flowers can, with a little 1 care, be so arranged that a fragrant perfume and Bl an abundant bloom will be a source of pleasure 'Hl nearly the whole year round. Flowers that will I jH bear the frost, in Central Michigan, until the 20th T '11 I of November, would be likely to last the whole yH ; winter in our Semi-Tropical climate. Those in ' f I the above article are fine flowers. A Tew other taD ; varieties could be added, such as the Columbine, ' IH . Pansy, Dahlia, Zinnia, Aster, Chrisanthemum, l 1 Acroclinium, Amaranth, Helichrysum, and anyv " amount of others you might choose, to keen up a I fine show the year round, . 1 |