2l8 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



L. Indica (Indian); warm greenhouse evergreen shrub; I2 

 feet; flowers white or rose-colorecl, in August; China; 1816. 

 L. speciosa (showy) ; warm greenhouse evergreen shrub ; 6 feet ; 

 flowers rose-colored, in August ; China; 1826. 



Lagurus. [Graminaceae.] A hardy annual ornamental 

 grass, growing in any garden soil. 



L. ovatiis (ovate) ; hardy annual ; I foot ; apetalous, August ; 

 Guernsey. 



Lamium. [Labiate.] Hardy plants, of which some of 

 the dwarf perennial varieties, and L. maculatum, with varie- 

 gated foliage and white or red blossoms, are pretty subjects 

 for rock-work. Common soil. Increased by division. 



Lantana. [Verbenaceae.] Stove shrubs, many of the 

 more showy of which, however, may be considered as green- 

 house plants, if they can be started in spring, in a frame or 

 warmer house. The larger species should be kept rather 

 dry in winter, when they will be induced to rest, and will lose 

 their foliage ; but, if they are excited at that season, they con- 

 tinue growing, and remain evergreen. In spring, or in Febru- 

 ary, they are to be pruned close back, and started to grow in 

 a stove or warm pit. They are free growers, and require to 

 be shifted into larger pots as their roots become numerous. 

 They should have a free rich loamy soil, consisting of loam, 

 peat, and leaf-mould, equal parts, with sand added if neces- 

 sary. The young shoots in spring should be freely stopped, 

 to produce bushy growth. L. Sellowiana should have three 

 parts sandy peat-earth in the compost, and, though rested by 

 comparative dr}'ness and coolness in winter, ought not to be 

 dried so much as the larger sorts. They do not require the 

 temperature of the stove : that of an intermediate house 

 suits them best. In warm and dry sitations, where the soil 

 is rather sandy, Z. Sellowia7ia forms good beds in the flower 

 garden, looking like a purple verbena ; and most of the lai 



