1 8 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



nuals and perennials, with pretty poppy-like blooms. Com- 

 mon garden soil. The annuals may be sown in pots in 

 February, a few in a three-inch pot, and kept under glass 

 until May, when, if planted out with their ball of earth entire 

 in the borders, they will flower directly; or they may be 

 sown in patches in the open border or in beds, about May. 

 The fault of the Flos Adonis as a garden plant is, that the 

 bloom is scanty. The perennials like a cool situation, but 

 require no peculiar culture : they are propagated by dividing 

 the roots. There are several species. 



ANNUALS. A. aestivalis (summer) ; 2 feet ; flowers scarlet, 

 in June ; south of Europe; 1629. A. autumnalis (autumnal; 

 Flos Adonis, Pheasant's Eye); 18 inches; flowers crimson, in 

 July; England. A. citrina (citron-colored); i foot; flowers 

 orange, in June ; south of Europe ; 1819. 



PERENNIALS. A. Appenina (Appenine) ; i foot ; flowers yel- 

 low, in May; Europe. A, Daurica (Dahurican) ; i foot ; flow- 

 ers yellow, in May ; Siberia; 1827. A. distorta (distorted) ; i 

 foot; flowers yellow, in spring; Naples; 1827. A. Pyrenaica 

 (Pyrenean) ; 18 inches ; flowers yellow, in July ; Pyrenees ; 1817. 

 A. Siberica (Siberian) ; 2 feet ; flowers yellow, in May; Siberia ; 

 1827. A. vernalis (spring); i foot; flowers yellow, in April; 

 Europe; 1629. A. Volgensis (Volga) ; i foot ; flowers yellow, in 

 May; Russia; 1818. 



^EGOCHLOA. [Polemoniaceae.] Dwarf hardy annuals, 

 nearly allied to Gilia, and requiring the same management. 

 They grow in ordinary light garden soil ; and seeds require 

 to be sown about the middle of May in patches in the flower- 

 borders, the young plants being thinned out while young, so 

 that they may not grow up crowded. The genus is now 

 called Navarrettia. 



&. cotulafolia (cotula-leaved) ; hardy annual ; 3 inches ; 

 flowers white, in June ; California ; 1833. sE. intertexta (inter- 

 woven) ; hardy annual ; I foot ; flowers blue, in June ; Califor- 



