ON PLANTS ADAPTED FOR PLANTING IN MASSES. 39 



be bad, a portion mixed with loam will be beneficial, at least mine 

 flourishes in it. The plant going out of flower in July, and being 

 readily obtained each season for replanting with, it is advisable, 

 as soon as it has done flowering, to take it up ; and having dug 

 over the bed, and manured it well, it may be replanted witli Ger- 

 man Asters, Lobelia fulgens, Trigridia pavonia, or any other plants 

 in pots, annuals, &c. ; so that a show is made immediately. The 

 bed I devoted to the V. Chamaedrys I did not replant with any- 

 thing, wanting it early in autumn for some other purpose ; but 

 plants of the kinds referred to above will be suitable, having pre- 

 viously prepared them for it. 



Petunia nyctigyniflora. — This plant is now become pretty 

 general in the flower garden. I have grown it in masses for four 

 years ; and when a bed of its white showy flowers are put in con- 

 trast with blue, or scarlet flowering plants, they make a very pretty 

 appearance. The plant grows from one foot to half a yard high. 

 Seeds may be sown in spring, raised in a hot bed, and be planted 

 out the end of April or early in May. Such will come into bloom 

 the end of July and continue to the end of the season. Plants 

 thus raised grow more into foliage than by the following method 

 of treatment; they also produce a less quantity of flowers. The 

 plan I adopt is the following : — Having the first season had a bed 

 of spring sown plants, at the end of September I took off short 

 side shoots, and inserted them in pots of loamy soil, and struck 

 them in heat. These I kept through winter in a cool frame. 

 About the last week in April I divided the plants, and planted 

 thein in a bed of good loamy soil, moderately enriched. After 

 planting them I had them well secured to sticks, the plants being 

 very easily severed at the origin of the shoots. These plants 

 came into bloom the end of May, and bloomed most abundantly, 

 producing but little foliage. In September, I took off cuttings for 

 the following year's supply. 



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