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varieties should be planted about three feet apart. Many 
fine varieties are raised in this country, and among them 
a fringed variety, fram which the Germans have suc- 
veeded in getting a double variety finely fringed and 
quite a handsome bloom. In the extreme South the 
Petunia will stand our Winters, Lui finer blocms are 
produced from young piants set eut in Spring. 
THE HELIOTROPE. 
“HE Heliotrope divides with the Sunflower the fable 
= of representing Clytie, who died of love for the sun, 
the course of which its flowers are supposed to follow. 
This is Ovid’s relation of her fate: 
She with distracted passion pines away ; 
Detesteth company ; all night, all day 
Disrobed, with her ruffed hair unbound, 
And wet with Rumor, sits upon the ground? 
For nine long days all sustenance forbears; 
Her hunger cloyed with dew, her thirst with tears; 
Nor rose; but rivets on the god her eyes, 
And ever turns her face to him that flies. 
At length to earth her stupid body cleaves; 
Her wan complexion turns to bloodless leaves, 
Yet streaked with red, her perished limbs beget 
A flower resembling the pale violet, 
Which with the sun, though rooted fast, doth move, 
And being changed, changetk not her love. 
The Heliotrope was introduced from Peru in 1757, and is 
a general favorite for its delicious fragrance. It grows 
freely in the open air, though not hardy in this latitude. 
After the 1st of September and until killed by frost, it is 
a complete mass of bloom. It is also largely cultivated 
for cut flowers in the greenhouse in Winter. It delights 
in a light rich soil, but will flower more freely in a soil of 
only moderate richness. If the soil is very rich it pro- 
