32 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
able. The plants will continue to be attractive for several 
weeks. White and lavender stocks, the latter in several 
shades, are arranged in the green background of foliage 
plants. 
At the entrance to the second section of the house is a mass 
of spiraeas with white or pinkish fleece-like flowers, ac- 
centuated by the panicles of the rose colored plumbago im- 
mediately behind it. Just in front is a small group of plants 
that are perhaps new to Garden visitors. These are speci- 
mens of Nemesia, a native of South Africa, and although in- 
troduced some twenty years ago, it has become prominent 
as a garden plant only in recent years. While the flowers— 
similar, in general, to the foxglove and snapdragon—are 
small, being only one-half to one inch across, they are re- 
markable in matured plants for their profusion and beauty 
of color, the latter ranging through yellow, rose pink, rich 
orange, white, crimson and scarlet. The plant has a long 
flowering season and, like Plumbago capensis, is a South 
African cape species. On account of the success last sum- 
mer of the cape leadwort (Plumbago capensis) as an outdoor 
plant in the Garden, the nemesias will be tried in a similar 
capacity during the coming summer. The plants shown in 
the greenhouses are of mixed shades, but those used outside 
will be in pure colors. The azaleas, which formed the center 
group of the second house early in the month, have been 
replaced by a bank of cinerarias, smaller groups of which 
are to be found also in the far west corners of the house. 
The bench of lily-of-the-valley, mixed with begonia “Gloire 
de Lorraine,” which made so attractive a combination early 
in the month, is now occupied by a collection of beautiful 
blue-flowered cinerarias. Parts of the central group are occu- 
pied by begonias and rambler roses. The southern bench is 
filled with plants of the Chinese primrose (Primula sinensis). 
A number of good cyclamens were exhibited, but not in such 
large quantities as last year, because the past hot and dry 
summer was particularly trying on these plants. A few 
plants of Begonia peltata have been much admired. Calla 
lilies have been conspicuous during the month, and will 
continue to come out from time to time. 
During the coming month the show of cinerarias, stocks, 
spiraeas, etc., will be supplemented by large numbers of 
antirrhinums, lobelias and mimulus. tebe ee 
