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pulchella ; Phlox Drurnmondii, with its varieties ; Campanula strictu ; Ipo- 

 mopsis elegans ; Argemone grandiflora ; Didiscus coeruleus ; Ipomopsfe 

 elegans ; Hunnemannia fumarisefolia ; Ageratum Mexicanum ; Limnan- 

 thus Douglassii ; Blumenbachia incana, multifida ; Heliophila araboides -, 

 Hibiscus Africanus ; Cosmus tenuifolius ; Calandrina discolor, grandiflora; 

 Loasa tricolor, insignis, lateritia ; Anagallis Indica, lilacina ; Salpiglossis 

 straminea ; Amaranthus caudatus. 



Tender Annuals. Impatiens Balsamina, Browallia elata, Celosia cristata 

 (cockscomb), Gomphrsena globosa ; Solanum melongena ; Ipomaea Quamo- 

 clit ; Mimosa puclici (humble plant), sensitiva (sensitive plant) . Thunber- 

 tfia alata ; Hedysarum gyrans, or moving plant, which, in our hot-houses, 

 often endure for two seasons (as do also Mimosa pudica and sensitiva) ; Bro 

 wallia grandiflora ; Cleome rosea, heterophylla ; Scyphanthus elegnns , 

 Loasa Pentlandica ; Martynia proboscidea ; Lisianthus Russellianus. 



have here enumerated only a small selection of spe 

 cies,* out of a multitude which is continually receiving ac 

 cessions. A good many of the sorts mentioned have been 

 introduced during the last twenty years; and we doubt not; 

 that, in an equal period from the present, many more will 

 come into notice. 



Before leaving this part of the subject, it may be proper 

 to mention that it is now the practice of some florists to 

 grow and treat as annuals, or rather as biennials, great 

 quantities of the more hardy Pelargouia, Verbence, Salvise, 

 Fuchsias, Petuniae, and other genera. Grown in moderate 

 sized pots, they are kept in reserve in frames or cold vine 

 ries during winter. About the end of May, or as soon as 

 there is no longer any apprehension of injury from frost, 

 the plants are taken out of the pots and plunged into the 

 open ground, in any warm sunny spot or clump in the flower 

 garden. If the stems be long or naked, they are pegged to 

 the earth. Towards the middle of July they begin to gro\y 

 vigorously, and in August or September present, in luxuri 

 ance at least, a better specimen of their native vegetation 



* Additional lists in Appendix. 



