340 Iberbaceous plants* 



leafy, ending in a loose raceme of a few large, rose-colored, 

 trumpet-like flowers rather late in summer. This is a very 

 desirable border plant, when well grown forming a bushy 

 specimen with very handsome foliage and flowers. It seems 

 to thrive best in a rich, sandy loam and a sunny position. 



THE FIGWOKT FAMILY. 



Salpiglossis, Salpiglossis sinuata. A very pretty 

 annual known in gardens under the name of variabilis. 

 The stem is slender and graceful, two feet high, more or 

 less, according to variety ; leaves, lower ones pinnatifid or 

 sinuate, stem leaves ovate or lanceolate, entire. Flowers at 

 the end of the lateral branches large and showy, of all 

 colors, from pale yellow to deep crimson. Propagated from 

 seeds sown in a border in spring. 



Mullein, Verbascum. These are chiefly coarse weeds of 

 dry and barren fields and roadsides. None deserve culti- 

 vation in this country with the possible exception of V. 

 Phceniceum, a tall and rather graceful plant with long 

 racemes of violet or red flowers, a weed in gravelly soil. 



Dwarf Mullein, Ramondia pyrenaica. This exquisite 

 alpine plant grows in the crevices of moist, mossy rocks 

 near running water in half-shady positions. It is of a very 

 dwarf and compact habit, with coarsely dentate and hairy, 

 ovate, rosulate leaves, and axillary scapes bearing several 

 purple, purplish-blue or whitish-blue flowers in great pro- 

 fusion. It grows best in moderate shade near the margin 

 of a rocky stream, in crevices. 



Speedwell, Veronica. Few of these are of any import- 

 ance as ornamental plants. The best are : V. longifolia, 



