means of recovering the variety, which would no doubt be 
accomplished if persons in this country were to send the 
figure to their correspondents in Mexico. Such is the 
brilliancy of the scarlet, that no mixture of the most vivid 
colours will match it by many degrees. 
Although as an annual, Z. violacea is usually propagated 
by seeds, yet it strikes freely by cuttings taken off when 
the stems have just become woody; a fact which is worth 
knowing, in case the variety should be recovered. 
J. L. 
