204 THE ANTIRRHINUM, OR SNAP DRAGON. 
Plants put out about the middle of March begin to bloom by the 
first week in May, and will do so in vigour till the end of July. 
Those planted out towards the end of June begin to bloom early in 
August, and will continue to the end of the season. 
In order to have a proper supply of plants they should be provided 
in pots. Young plants should be planted out, they strike very freely 
from cuttings of the stde shoots, three or four inches long, cutting them 
close under a joint, and inserting them in a compost of equal parts of 
sand and loam, in a shady border, ccvering them with a hand glass, or, 
if in pots, with bell-glasses. When potted off singly and begin to 
grow, the leading shoots should be stopped to make them bushy. Such 
plants, well rooted and bushy, should be provided for during the winter, 
and they should be kept in a dry cool frame or pit. The old blooming 
plants should never be depended upon for enduring winter and bloom- 
ing a second year. Seed sown in pots, and the plants transplanted out, 
or sown thinly in the open ground, soon come into bloom, and scarcely 
will there be two alike; it is interesting to examine the variety and 
make selections. 
The following are the best varieties we have seen :— 
GARLAND: tube white, mouth yellow, lips white ground, striped 
and spotted with deep purple. 
Israuimm Pasua: ground white, mouth yellow, lips and tube striped 
crimson-purple. 
Vicrory: white ground, yellow mouth, and lips striped with purple. 
Maponna: white ground, yellow mouth, flower striped and spotted 
with purple. 
Caxyrso: tube white, yellow mouth, and pretty lilac-blush lips. 
STRIPED PERFECTION: white ground, striped and spotted with 
purple. 
ENTERPRIZE: white spotted, and striped with carmine. 
*“PawsEyANA: light ground, yellow mouth, with broad stripes of 
crimson-red, 
Prima Donna: white tube striped with purple, yellow mouth, and 
the lips dull sulphur, with stripes of purple and crimson. 
Farr Main: tube and mouth pure white, lips a beautiful lilac- 
ink. 
LutrA Improvep: pretty sulphur and yellow. 
Crimson Kine: splendid crimson, large. 
Har equin: blush ground, striped with carmine. 
CHLOE: pure white. 
ConsTELLATION: light ground, heavily striped and spotted with 
rosy-pink. 
Maipen’s Buiusn: rosy lilac, with a white mouth. 
QUEEN OF THE WuITES: pure white, large. 
Surruvs: bright yellow, with white mouth, pencilled and veined 
with dark claret. 
Prarris Brrp: white tube, with sulphur mouth, lips blush-lilac, 
veined with rosy-red. 
Unique: purple ground colour, with broad stripes of white. 
GrRanpis: light ground, striped with pink. 
