THE YUCCAS— AS HARDY ORNAMENTAL PLANTS. 



Golden Bartonia, {liartonia aurea)-~Very fine yellow, cup-shaped flower, a foot high — 



showy. 

 German Asters— A great variety of shades, of red, pink, and blue, plain and quilled — 



very ornamental in beds — six to nine inches high. 

 Venus' Paint Brush, ( Caccalia cocciiiea) — Flowers scarlet— blooms abundantly for a long 



time — one foot. 

 Parti-colored Collinsia, ( Collinsia 6ico/or )-^Purple and white — very pretty — six inches 



— should be sown with one-half Schisanthus, to keep up the bloom till autumn. 

 Dwarf Convolvulus, ( Con«oZ«u^iis jninor) — Blue and white; eight inches high; opens 



only in the morning — blooms all the season. 

 Chinese Pink, {Dlanthus c/nncnsis)— Variegated, crimson, purple and white; one foot; 



the double variety the finest. 

 California Poppy, (Eschscholtzia California) — Bright yellow, and E. crocea, orange — 



bloom abundantly; six inches high. 

 Palestine Mustard, {Erysinuni Peroffskianurri) — Deep orange; one foot high. 

 Blue Entoca, (Entoca viscida) — Dark blue; six inches high. 

 Dwarf Trailing Lobelia, (^Lobelia gracilis) — Delicate blue; three inches; blooms a long 



time. 

 Blue Nemophila, {Nemophila insignis) — Sky blue; very pretty and delicate; five inch- 

 es — (likes the shade.) 

 Spanish Nigella, (Nigella Hispanica') — Pale blue; curious and pretty; nine inches. 

 Drummond's Phlox, (^Phlox Drmmnondi) — Various shades, from white, crimson, dark 



purple and striped; nine inches high; makes fine beds. 

 Portulaccas — various colors — white, purple, crimson, yellow and strioed — each sort should 



be massed by itself — will grow and bloom in any soil: four inches high. 

 Schisanthus — Of several species, the hardiest and best for beds are iS". pinnatus, (lilac,) 



and S. splendens, variegated — both about one and a half feet high. 

 Gilia tricolor — Blue, white, and yellow, very delicate and pretty, makes excellent beds — 



growing nine inches high. 

 Blue Tweedia, (^Tweedia ccrulea) — ^Pretty trailing blue annual, ten inches. 

 Rose Lychnis, (Lychnis Cali-rosa) — Flesh color, profuse bloomer, four inches. 



The season is so late, that any of the above may be sown with success till the 10th or 

 11th of May, (at least north of Baltimore;) and as they may all be had at most of the 

 seed stores, it will still be easy, by their aid, to repair any deficiencies in the flower gar- 

 den. An Amateur. 



Neiv-York, April, 1852. 



THE YUCCAS— AS HARDY ORNAMENTAL PLANTS. 



TrfERE are few plants so ornamental as several of the Yuccas, and yet we seldom see 

 them employed in any conspicuous way, in our pleasure grounds or flower gardens. Here 

 and there, perhaps, in the gardens of our curious amateurs, one sees a solitary plant, but 

 beds, groups, and masses, never. Yet there are no plants so altogether satisfactory in 

 many re.spects, as two or three species of Yucca that we can name. 



The Yuccas are mostly southern plants — the name Yucca being a vernacular appellation 



Domingo. Some of the species, however, are natives of the United States — from 



inia to Florida, and far from being tender, they are hardier than many really northern 



