INDIAN-CORN. 201 



INDIAN COKN. 



ZEA. 



GKAMIXEiE. , MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, 



Called also Maize ; Turkey Corn. — French, le mais ; mayz ; ble de 

 Turquie ; ble d'Espagne [Spanish corn] ; ble de Guinee [Guinea 

 corn] ; ble d'Inde [Indian corn] ; gros millet des Indes [great Indian 

 millet]. — Italian, gran Turco, furmento Turco [Turkey wheat] ; for- 

 mentone ; grano d'India. 



This corn should be sown early in April, in large deep 

 pots. It may be sown, at first, several in one pot, and 

 afterwards removed ; transplanting them into separate pots 

 about the end of JVIay. It will not grow so high in a pot 

 as in the open ground, but is worth raising in this manner 

 for the sake of its long elegant leaves. It should stand in 

 the open air, and, in dry weather, be watered every even- 

 ing. If there is convenient room for it in-doors, the seed 

 may be sown a month earlier, and kept under cover till 

 the beginning or middle of April. The plant will decay 

 in the autumn. 



INDIAN PINK. 



DIANTHUS CHINENSIS. 



Called also China Pink. — French, I'oeillet de la Chine. 



The Indian Pink is generally considered as an annual 

 plant, and therefore the roots are not often preserved ; 

 but, if they are planted in a dry soil, they will often pro- 

 duce finer flowers the second year than the first, and in 

 greater number. It is a very ornamental plant, from the 



