annuals in cultivation. Its large violet-coloured flower- 
heads, varying in the depth of colour according to their age, 
the youngest being palest, have no rival among annuals of 
the same dwarf habit; and it is not too much to say the 
Large Swan Daisy deserves to be placed in the same class 
as Nemophila insignis and Collinsia grandiflora. 
For the introduction of the species we are indebted to 
Mrs.Wray of Cheltenham ; and the accompanying figure has 
been made from a clever sketch by Miss Wray. 
It flowers freely in the open border, but is impatient of 
wet ; at the latter end of the season it may however be lifted 
and transferred to the greenhouse, where it will go on bloom- 
ing beautifully. It is however to be observed that there are 
many varieties, differig much in colour and size, and more 
particularly a lilac and a white sort. Mrs. Wray informs us 
that she has had numbers of plants of ‘“ every shade of blue 
and lustrous lilac, with considerable diversity in the size and 
shape of the flower-heads.” 
_ We understand that Mr. Lowe, of Clapton, has also 
raised the Large Swan Daisy. 
