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The sprrics cultivated are: 1. L. allu*, 

 White Lupine : 2. L. rutins, .Small Blue Lu- 

 pine ; 3. L. avgustifolius, Narrow-rleaved Blue 

 J.U])ine : 4. L. hirsutll-t, Cheat Blue Lupine; 

 .^. L. titteiis, Yellow Lupine; 6. L. perennis, 

 Perennial Lupine. 



The first has a thick upright stalk about two 

 feet high, dividing towards the top into several 

 smaller hairy branches: the leaves are digitate, 

 composed of seven or eight narrow oblong 

 leaflets, joining at the base ; they arc hairy, of 

 a dark grayish colour, and have a silvery down : 

 the flowers are produced in loose spikes at the 

 end of the branches ; they are white and sessile: 

 the legumes are straight, hairy, about three 

 inches" long, containing five or six seeds, which 

 are roundish, flatted like a lens, extremely 

 smooth and even, perfectly white without any 

 spots, smaller than most of the others. It 

 flowers in Julv, and the seeds ripen in the 

 autumn : growing naturally in the Levant. 



'I he second species is an annual plant, with 

 a firm, straight, channelled stalk near three feet 

 high, divided towards the top into several 

 branches : the leaves are digitate, composed of 

 five, six. or seven oblong or linear leaflets, which 

 join at their base, and are hairy : the flowers 

 are produced in spikes at the end of the 

 branches, standing round the stalk in halt 

 whorls ; they are of a light blue colour. It 

 is a native of the South of France, &c. flowering 

 in Julv. 



The third has much the appearance of the se- 

 cond sort, but the stalks rise higher : the leaves 

 have more leaflets, and stand upon longer foot- 

 stalks: the leailcts are blunt: the seeds are 

 variegated ; and, according to Linnaeus, they are 

 linear, and the flowers blue. Kay describes it 

 as more upright, and much taller, being 

 eighteen inches high, and as tall as the first. It 

 is a native of Spain, &c. 



The fourth species is also an annual plant, 

 which rises with a strong firm channelled stalk, 

 from three to four tect high, covered with a 

 soft brownish down, dividing upward into se- 

 veral strong branches, garnished with digitate 

 leaves, composed of nine, ten, or eleven wedge- 

 shaped hairy leailcts, which are narrow at their 

 base, where thev join the foot-stalk, but enlarge 

 upward, and are rounded at the top, where they 

 are broadest : the foot-stalks of the leaves are 

 three or tour inches long: the flowers are placed 

 in whorls round the stalks above each other, 

 forming a loose spike, which proceeds from the 

 end of the branches ; arc large, and of a beau- 

 tiful blue colour, but have no scent : they ap- 

 pear iu July, and the seeds ripen in autumn : 

 the pods are huge, almost an inch broad, and 



three inches long; inclosing three lanre round- 

 ish seeds, compressed on their sides, very rough 

 and of a purplish brown colour. It is a native 

 of the South of Europe. 



There is a variety with flesh-coloured flowers, 

 commolv called Rose Lupine. 



The fifth has a stem a foot high, branching : 

 the leaves are digirate, composed of seven, 

 eight, or nine narrow hairy leailcts, nearly two 

 inches long: the flowers are yellow, odorous, in 

 loose spikes at the end of the branches, com- 

 posed of several (six or seven) whorls, with 

 spaces between them, and about five flowers in 

 each, terminated by three or four flowers, sit- 

 ting close at the top ; these are succeeded by 

 ovate flattish hairv pods, about two inches long, 

 standing erect, and inclosing three, four, or five 

 roundish seeds, a little compressed, yellowish 

 white, variegated with dark spots. It is a na- 

 tive of Sicily, flowering in June and July. 



The sixth has a perennial creeping root, from 

 which aiise several erect channelled stalks a 

 foot and a half high, sending out two or three 

 small side branches, garnished with digitate 

 leaves, composed of from live to ten or eleven 

 narrow spear-shaped leaflets, which join at 

 their base, and stand upon very long foot-stalks, 

 having a few hairs on their edges : the flowers 

 giow in long loose spikes, which terminate the 

 stalks, ar.d are placed without order on each 

 side ; they are of a pale blue colour, and on 

 short peduncles'; appearing in June, and the 

 seeds ripening in August, which are soon scat- 

 tered if they are not gathered when ripe ; for, 

 after a little moisture, the sun causes the pods 

 to open with elasticity, and cast out the seeds to 

 a distance. It is a native of Virginia. 



Culture. — These plants may be readily raised 

 by sowing the seeds in patches in the borders, 

 with other annuals in the spring, where they are 

 to remain ; thinning them afterwards where 

 they are too close, and keeping them clean from 

 weeds. In order to have a succession of flowers, 

 they should be sown at different times, as in 

 April, May, and June. The seed of those only 

 which are first sown ripens well. 



In order to have good seed of the fourth 

 kind, some seeds should be sown on a sunny 

 bonier under a wall, or in pots placed under 

 frames, the plants in the latter case being turn- 

 ed out and planted with balls of earth about 

 them in the spring. 



They arc all useful plants for producing va- 

 riety, in the borders, clumps, and other parts. 

 The last sort should be sown at many different 

 times. 



LUXURIANT PLANTS, a term in garden- 

 ing, signifying such as become greatly any;- 



