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dacese, Cleome puBgens, Among the Crucifers we have the Heliophila, 

 Iberis, lonopsidium acaule, an elegant little plant for rockeries ; the well- 

 known Yirginiau stock, and stocks of fifty other kinds. The Resedaceae 

 is redeemed from obscurity by that old favourite the mignonette ; and the 

 student of botany would do well to make sure of specimens of the three 

 British mignonettes — Eesedaluteola, lutea, and fruticulosa — fur purposes 

 of comparison. The Caryophyllaceae send their numerous species of 

 Dianthus, Agrosteinma, Gypsophilla, Saponaria, Silene, and Yiscaria, to 

 the annual garden, and it can boast of no more enduring or lasting orna- 

 ments. Linace£e is not rich in species, but the species are rich in them- 

 selves, and the order is made memorable fir the sake of Linurn grandi- 

 florum rubrum, one of the most beautiful garden flowers we have. To 



grow it you have but to sow it, and leave italone — that is the conclusion 

 arrived at, after volumes have been written on the subject, and hundreds 

 of useless experiments tried. Malva'.ea) offers Callirhoe pedata, a charming 

 novelty ; the old favourite, Hibiscus Africanus, the elegant Chinese holly- 

 hocks, three feet high, of all colours, and the flowers most beautifully 

 formed and disposed. Malva zebrina is a coarse thing, and the botanist 

 may do without it, for it is not a species. Tropaeolacese abounris in annuals, 

 all of which, if worth it, may be made perennial by proper culture and 

 propagation by cuttings, and that is the only way to secure definite cha- 

 racters, for none of the bedding tropseoluras are to be depended on as 

 coming true from seed. We have raised seedlings of the Lobbianum sec- 

 tion for several years past, and at least sixty per cent, were worthless ; but 

 of the remaining forty per cent, all were worth keepinir, many were true 

 to their parentage, and a few worth naming and distributing. Balsamina- 



