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found in the Order ; it is quite hardy, and deserves cultivation on account of the 

 freedom with which its large, but somewhat ragged flowers, are produced for several 

 months in succession. 



The plants of the Borage tribe, notwithstanding their general coarseness of 

 foliage, are many of them beautiful ornaments of the borders. No garden should 

 be without the handsome Anchusa Italica ; and where space can be afforded, some 

 of the Echiums, Cynoglossums, Symphytums, and Lithospermums, are almost 'of 

 equal interest. Two new plants of the Order are very desirable, Amelia echioides 

 and Lithospermum canescens, both with orange flowers; a hue somewhat uncommon 

 in the order. 



The Lahiatce, or Lip-worts, deserve a more extended notice than we are now able 

 to afford them ; but any account of hardy perennials would be altogether incomplete 

 without a brief reference to such plants as the Monardas, Dracocephalums, Phlomis, 

 Scutellarias, and Stachys, many of which are pretty, and some really remarkable for 

 their brilliant flowers. But the most interesting plants of this order are, 

 undoubtedly, those of the genus Salvia. The beautiful S. patens, and its white 

 variety, are everywhere seen, as well as the older scarlet fulgens and splendens ; but 

 to what cause is to be attributed the almost general absence from our gardens of 

 such species as licolor, azurea, Grahamii, Simsii, aurea, Mans, indica, Tenorii, and 

 others too numerous to mention, which are many of them hardier than those 

 commonly grown, and fully equal to them in beauty. 



Another family, with equal claims to attention, is the Scrophularinea, or Fig-worts, 

 in which are to be found the elegant Pentstemons, and Chelones, the stately Fox- 

 gloves, and the various species of Linaria, Veronica, Pedicularis, and Mimulus. 



Our exhausted space compels us to omit many interesting plants which we should 

 otherwise have noticed, but we must not conclude without a reference to the 

 Yerbascums, and Solanums, of the Night-shade tribe ; to the beautiful Armerias and 

 Statices, of the Lead- worts ; to the hardy species of Asclepias, of which there are 

 several showy plants ; and the Acanthus mollis, so interesting from its association 

 with the origin of the Corinthian order of Architecture. 



"We think a review of the preceding sketch will justify us in repeating here, what 

 we have already stated in the commencement of our remarks, that when individual 

 taste or peculiar circumstances may render it necessary to exclude the more tender 

 ornamental plants from the flower-garden, a judicious selection of the numerous 

 hardy species would present a result scarcely less brilliant, and certainly more easy 

 of attainment, than that produced by the aid of the rarest and most costly exotics. 



