Floricultural andt Botanical Notices. 219 



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 rowed witli about thirteen prominent, moderately acute ridges, 

 armed with s])ires, the central one of which is remarkably 

 long, four inches in length, flattened, deflexed, and curved 

 into a hook at the extremity. The flowers are between three 

 and four inches long, and the same in diameter, and are 

 tinged with red at the tip. It requires the same culture as 

 the other species. It is a valuable and beautiful addition to 

 this showy family. {Bat. Mag., Feb. J 



Selection of Annuals adapted for Bedding, &c. — The 

 following list of hardy summer and autumn flowering annuals 

 is oftered for the convenience of those whose time and limited 

 means prevent their attention to the general class of half-hardy 

 and tender plants for eflJect, en masse, in flower gardens. 

 The descriptions are intended to convey an idea of their av- 

 erage height, color, and habit. A simple mode of managing 

 these seeds is either to sow in drills, or otherwise broadcast 

 over the entire bed, or border, and cover the seeds slightly 

 with finely-sifted old tan, or friable loamy soil : — ■ 



Gladanihus arahicus. — A neat compact plant, from 9 inches to 12 inches 

 high, of a divaricately-branching habit, with dark green, narrow lobed 

 leaves, richly contrasted with bright golden-yellow, close-pctalled, Chrysan- 

 themum-like flowers, about 1^ inch wide. 



(Enoihcra tenella ienuifolia. — One of the neatest species of a favorite 

 tribe. It grows from 9 to 12 inches high, with small narrow leaves, and 

 numerous large conspicuous purple salver-shaped flowers, varying in semi- 

 nal varieties to rosy purple. 



Cape Maiygold. — A dwarf compact annual, from 9 to 12 inches high, 

 bearing a profusion of snow-white single Chrysanthemum-like close-lobed 

 blossoms l.\ to 2 inches in diarr.eter. 



J^Temoplnla insignis grandijlora. — A very beautiful trailing variety with 

 comparatively light foliage, and studded over with thousands of bright 

 azure-blue salver-shaped flowers three-quarters of an inch broad. 



JsTew Golden Chrysanthemum. — An erect compact branching annual, froni 

 12 to 16 inches high, with deeply-divided dark green leaves, and numerous 

 clear golden-yellow Marygold-like flowers, each 1^ to 2 inches wide, beau- 

 tifully contrasted in color by a rich olive-brown circle towards the centre. 



Chysanthemum tricolor. — A neat, brandling, fleshy-stemmed plant, from 

 12 to 16 inches high, with narrowly-divided leaves, and a profusion of large, 

 beautiful, clear white blossoms (2 inches wide), ornamented with a yellow 

 band towards the base, and picturesquely diversified by a rich olive-brown 

 centre. 



