2l8 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



L. Indica (Indian); warm greenhouse evergreen shrub; 12 

 feet; flowers white or rose-colored, in August; China; 1816. 

 L. speciosa (showy) ; warm greenhouse evergreen shrub ; 6 feet ; 

 flowers rose-colored, in August ; China; 1826. 



LAGURUS. [Gramir.eae.] A hardy annual ornamental 

 grass, growing in any garden soil. 



L. ovatus (ovate) ; hardy annual ; I foot ; apetalous, August ; 

 Guernsey. 



LAMIUM. [Labiaceae.] Hardy plants, of which some of 

 the dwarf perennial varieties, and L. maculatum, with varie- 

 gated foliage and white or red blossoms, are pretty subjects 

 for rock-work. Common soil. Increased by division. 



LANTANA. [Verbenaceae.] Stove shrubs, many of the 

 more showy of which, however, may be considered as green- 

 house plants, if they can be started in spring, in a frame or 

 warmer house. The larger species should be kept rather 

 dry in winter, when they will be induced to rest, and will lose 

 their foliage ; but, if they are excited at that season, they con- 

 tinue growing, and remain evergreen. In spring, or in Febru- 

 ary, they are to be pruned close back, and started to grow in 

 a stove or warm pit. They are free growers, and require to 

 be shifted into larger pots as their roots become numerous. 

 They should have a free rich loamy soil, consisting of loam, 

 peat, and leaf-mould, equal parts, with sand added if neces- 

 sary. The young shoots in spring should be freely stopped, 

 to produce bushy growth. L. Sellounana should have three 

 parts sandy peat-earth in the compost, and, though rested by 

 comparative dryness and coolness in winter, ought not to be 

 dried so much as the larger sorts. They do not require the 

 temperature of the stove : that of an intermediate house 

 suits them best. In warm and dry sitations, where the soil 

 is rather sandy, L. Selltnviana forms good beds in the flower- 

 garden, looking like a purple verbena ; and most of the lar- 



