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as have passed the winter in poor dry soil should, therefore, be transferred in 

 March, with as little disturbance of the roots as possible, to a well manured 

 border, the plants being grouped in as large a mass as the supply will permit. 



Those who had the good fortune to be present at the Chiswick Exhibition, at 

 which Messrs. Veitch's specimens were shown, will hardly need to be informed 

 the yellow Leptosiphon readily adapts itself to pot-culture. Plants which have 

 passed the winter in the open air will make charming ornaments for the window in 

 spring, if dug up and potted in rich soil about the end of February or beginning 

 of March. Spring sowings will be best effected where the plants are intended to 

 bloom,- and in rich soil. 



Besides the Leptosiphon luteus and the well-known L. androsaceus and L. densiflorus, 

 there are two other species recorded, viz. the L. grandiflorus and L. parviflorus, 

 both of which are said to be of a yellowish tint, though neither of them has yet 

 come under our notice. It may be worth while remarking that the two species, 

 androsaceus and densiflorus, most familiar to gardeners, are not unfrequently sold for 

 each other ; but they are readily distinguished by the different length of the corolla 

 tube. In densiflorus, this is very short, shorter indeed than the limb of the flower ; 

 in androsaceus and its varieties, it is twice or thrice longer than the limb. The 

 leaves of the latter have also fewer lobes than those of the former. 



The generic appellation, Leptosiphon {leptos, slender, and siphon, a tube), is so 

 peculiarly appropriate to the present species, that we have employed it throughout 

 these remarks ; they differ, however, from the Gilias in so little except the greater 

 length of the corolla tube, that it is now proposed to unite them with that genus. 

 It should, therefore, be borne in mind that the attractive little plant here intro- 

 duced to our readers, is by some authors termed the Gilia lutea. 



MILLA BIFLOHA. 



Two-flowered Milla. 

 Linneun Class — Hexandria. Order — Monogynia. Natural Order — Liliacile. 



Extended observations on a large number of plants of all hues have established 

 the fact, that, of those yielding white flowers, a much greater proportion are 

 fragrant, than in the case of those with red, yellow, or blue blossoms. It may 

 be that the gift of fragrance is bestowed in compensation for the absence of 

 colour, though the loveliness of many of our white flowers might well render 



