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continue blowing from July to October. It is a native of Buenos 

 Ayres. 



The third lias a shrubby stalk more than two feet high, hairy, 

 with narrow-lanceolate sessile leaves, a little waved on their edges, 

 and ending in acute points: the flowers are axillary like the other 

 sorts, at first pale yellow, but as they decay changing to an orange 

 colour, smaller than those of the first sort: the seed-vessels slender, 

 taper, hairy. It is also a biennial plant, and a native of Buenos 

 Ayres, flowering from June to October. 



The fourth species is a perennial, but altogether herbaceous, at 

 least here, and therefore improperly named fruticosn: the flowers, 

 which are large and showy, though they oj)en in the evening, remain 

 expanded during most of the ensuing day: the flower-buds, germ, 

 and stalk, are enlivened by a richness of colour which contributes to 

 render this species one of the most ornamental and desirable. It is 

 a native of Virginia. 



The fifth has also a perenninl fibrous root: the lower leaves ovate, 

 small, close to the ground: the stalk slender, near a foot high : the 

 leaves smaller, light green, sessile, ending in blunt points: the flowers 

 small, bright yellow: it sends out many flowering-stems, producing 

 blossoms from April to July, opening in the morning as well as 

 evening. It is a native of North America. 



Culture. — These plants are all capable of being raised from seeds, 

 and some of them by parting the roots and cuttings. 



The seed should be sown either in the autumn or early spring, 

 in the first and third sorts, upon a bed or border in the open ground, 

 thinning and Avatering the plants properly, and keeping them free 

 from weeds till the following autumn, when they may be removed 

 with balls of earth about their roots to the places where they are to 

 remain. Or some may be set out at the time of thinning in nursery- 

 rows, six inches apart. 



They also rise without trouble from the scattering of the seeds. 

 In the second sort, the seed should be put into the ground in the 

 open borders or other parts, about the latter end of March, where 



the plants are to remain. One plant is sufficient in a place, which 



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