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Leptosiphon densiflorus and L. androsaceus. — Both remark- 

 ably neat dwarf species, with narrow, dark green, needle or larch- 

 like leaves, and furnished with numerous terminal clusters of 

 variously shaded pale rosy, pink, and white-lobed, salver-shaped 

 flowers, in July and August. 



Lupinus nanus. — An extremely pretty species, with small hand- 

 shaped leaves, and numerous long terminal erect spikes of elegant 

 blue and white pea-shaped flowers. 



Lupinus Cruickshankii. — An extremely beautiful late summer 

 and autumn-flowering species, two to three feet high, of neat erect 

 branching growth, with smooth finger-lobed leaves and terminal 

 spikes or racemes of richly blended blue, white, and yellow pea- 

 shaped flowers. 



Malope grandiflora. — A highly-ornamental annual, two to 

 three feet high, with obtusely-lobed mallow-like leaves, and nume- 

 rous remarkably large, and beautiful rich crimson salver-shaped 

 flowers, four to six inches wide. 



Nemophila insignis grandiflora. — A very beautiful trailing 

 variety, with comparatively light foliage, and studded over with 

 thousands of bright azure-blue, salver-shaped flowers, three-quarters 

 of an inch broad. 



New Golden Chrysanthemum. — An erect compact branching 

 annual, from twelve to sixteen inches high, with deeply-divided 

 dark green leaves, and numerous clear golden-yellow marigold-like 

 flowers, each one and a-half to two inches wide, beautifully con- 

 trasted in colour by a rich olive-brown circle towards the centre. 



Sanvitalia procumbens. — A neat compact growing plant, rising 

 from four to six inches high, with small, oval, dark-green leaves, 

 and numerous orange-rayed Budbeckia-like flowers, three-fourths of 

 an inch wide, richly diversified with a black centre. 



Silene rubella. — A neat plant, twelve inches high, with broad 

 ovate glossy leaves, and numerous terminal clusters of loose pur- 

 plish rose-coloured blossoms. 



Sweet Sultan. — An upright growing plant, eighteen inches to 

 two feet high, producing many conspicuously-ornamental, large, 

 clear white, thistle-like flowers. 



Tangier Pea (Lathtrus Tingitanus). — A very elegant twining 

 annual plant, three to four feet high, with medium-sized foliage, and 

 numerous clusters of remarkably rich violet-crimson blossoms. 



Yellow Hawkweed. — A somewhat loose growing and slender 

 branched plant, twelve to sixteen inches high, ornamented with a 

 profusion of very neat pale yellow, or brimstone- coloured marigold- 

 like blossoms, about one and a-half inch wide, which are singularly 

 diversified with a double interior row of smaller orange-yellow 

 petals, the whole being relieved by the contrasted effect of a large 

 and remarkably beautiful rich dark-brown centre. 



April. 



