206 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



ida ; 1766. I. religiosu7n (\\o\y) ; half-hardy evergreen shrub ; 4 

 feet ; flowers green, in May ; Japan ; 1842. 



Impatiens. Touch-me-not. [Balsaminaceae.] Annual or 

 perennial fleshy-stemmed plants, mostly requiring the assist- 

 ance of artificial heat, and a moist sheltered climate. The 

 tender annuals should be raised in hot-frames, from seeds, in 

 February or March, and grown on until summer, near the 

 glass, in hot-frames or hot-houses, and may then be bloomed 

 in a greenhouse after its usual occupants are placed out 

 doors. Most of these may be raised from cuttings, or made 

 biennial by removing all ilower-buds the first year. Some 

 of them, if reared in a mild heat, and carefully inured to 

 exposure, will flower out doors in a moderately sheltered 

 situation ; but they require a moist atmosphere, and moisture 

 at the roots, as w^ell as a warm exposure. I. glanduligera. 

 macrochila^ and cajidida are the best for this treatment : 

 these have a fine pyramidal habit, and bloom abundantly. 

 The hardy annuals may be sown in the open border, in a 

 dampish sheltered place ; and there they will spring up abun 

 dantly from scattered seeds. See Balsamina for culture of 

 the annual kinds. 



/. Candida (white) ; half-hardy (or tender) annual ; 6 feet ; flow- 

 ers white, in July ; Himalayas ; 1839. /• /z^/'z^'^: (tawny, spotted) ; 

 hardy sub-aquatic annual ; 4 feet ; flowers yellow, in July ; North 

 America. /. glanduligera (gland-bearing) ; half-hardy (or ten- 

 der) annual; 6 feet; flowers rose-color, in July; Himalayas; 

 1839. ^- macrochila (large-lipped) ; half-hardy (or tender) an- 

 nual ; flowers pale-purple, in August ; India ; 1839. 



Indian-Cress. See Trop^olum. 



Indian-Pink. See Dianthus. 



Indian-Shot. See Canna. 



Ink-berry. See Ilex. 



Inula. [Compositae.] A genus containing many hardy 



