1 8 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



nuals and perennials, with pretty poppy-like blooms. Com- 

 mon garden soil. The annuals may be sown in pots in 

 February, a few in a three-inch pot, and kept under glass 

 until May, when, if planted out with their ball of earth entire 

 in the borders, they will flower directly ; or they may be 

 sown in patches in the open border or in beds, about May. 

 The fault of the Flos Adonis as a garden plant is, that the 

 bloom is scanty. The perennials like a cool situation, but 

 require no peculiar culture : they are propagated by dividing 

 the roots. There are several species. 



Annuals. A. aestivalis (summer) ; 2 feet ; flowers scarlet, 

 in June ; south of Europe; 1629. A. aiitumnalis (autumnal; 

 Flos Adonis, Pheasant's Eye); 18 inches; flowers crimson, in 

 July; England. A. citrina (citron-colored); i foot; flowers 

 orange, in June ; south of Europe ; 18 19. 



Perennials. A. Appeniiia (Appenine) ; i foot ; flowers yel- 

 low, in May ; Europe. ^. Z>«z/rzV<2 (Dahurican) ; i foot; flow- 

 ers yellow, in May; Siberia; 1827. ^. ^/j-/^r/^ (distorted) ; i 

 foot; flowers yellow, in spring; Naples; 1827. A. Pyreiiaica 

 (Pyrenean) ; 18 inches ; flowers yellow, in July ; Pyrenees ; 18 17. 

 A. Siberica (Siberian) ; 2 feet ; flowers yellow, in May; Siberia ; 

 1827. A. ver7ialis (spring); i foot; flowers yellow, in April; 

 Europe ; 1629. A. Volgensis (Volga) ; i foot ; flowers yellow, in 

 May; Russia; 18 18. 



^GOCHLOA. [Polemoniaceae.] Dwarf hardy annuals, 

 nearly allied to Gilia, and requiring the same management. 

 They grow in ordinary light garden soil ; and seeds require 

 to be sown about the middle of May in patches in the flower- 

 borders, the young plants being thinned out while young, so 

 that they may not grow up crowded. The genus is now 

 called Navarrettia. 



^. cotidcefolia (cotula-leaved) ; hardy annual ; 3 inches ; 

 flowers white, in June ; California; 1833. ^. intcrtexta (mier- 

 woven) ; hardy annual ; i foot ; flowers blue, in June ; Cahfor- 



