188 FLORA HISTORICA. 



The Evening Primrose is made the emblem of 

 inconstancy, and is therefore seldom worn by the 

 fair, excepting by those gay belles who love to 

 coquet and teaze their smitten swains. 



These biennial plants are raised by sowing the 

 seeds in autumn, on a border, where the plants 

 should remain until the following autumn, when 

 they may be removed to the situations where they 

 are intended to flower the following summer. In 

 removing them care is required to avoid breaking 

 the roots, which run deep into the ground. The 

 common kind will grow in almost any soil and 

 situation, but the Grandiflora, being more delicate, 

 requires a south aspect and a free light earth. 



The Sweet-scented or Curl-leaved Evening 

 Primrose, (Enothem Odorata, is a plant of late 

 introduction, which, from its delightful fragrance 

 and hardy nature, is likely to supersede the 

 other species, so as to banish them from the best 

 gardens. We are indebted to the late Sir Joseph 

 Banks for this species of QEnothera, he having 

 purchased the seeds amongst others which had 

 been collected by the surgeon of a merchant-ship, 

 at Port Desire, on the coast of Patagonia. The 

 plants were first raised in Europe in 1790, and 

 their native place is now said to be on the banks 

 of Champion river. 



This proves to be a tolerably hardy perennial 



