The seventh is a native of Portugal, flowering in August and 

 September. 



Culture. -The first two, or annual sorts, are readily increased, by 

 sowing the seeds in a light soil in the places where the plants are to 

 remain, or in pots, in the spring season, as about the latter end of 

 March, in patches of four or five in each, giving them water occa- 

 sionally when the weather is dry. When the plants have attained a 

 little growth, they should be thinned out to one or two of the 

 strongest plants. When any are to be removed to other places, it 

 should be done at this period, and with a little earth about the roots, 

 due water and shade being given; but they seldom succeed well by 

 transplanting. 



All the other shrubby perennial sorts may likewise be increased 

 by sowing the seeds, and managing the plants in the same manner. 



Most of these sorts will not last more than two years in this 

 climate, unless the soil be dry, when they continue three or four. 



They in general require a warm dry situation, or to have their 

 roots covered by old tan, or the protection of the green-house during 

 the severity of the winter season. 



They are all highly ornamental in different parts of pleasure- 

 grounds. The annual sorts have great beauty, in their flowers being 

 large, numerous, and conspicuous, and are proper where large 

 showy-flowering plants are required. The perennial kinds arc also 

 suitable for large borders and shrubbery compartments, having large, 

 straight, upright, durable stems, terminated by branchy bushy heads, 

 and very large soft foliage, that form a fine variety in assemblage 

 with other plants, though their flowers are often hidden by their 

 large leaves. 



