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and will flower strongly the next year. There is also a single 

 and double white variety. All the varieties do best in a light, 

 rich, loamy soil. It is necessary to take up and divide the 

 roots every other year. The best time to do this is early in 

 the spring. A light protection is necessary to the double vari- 

 eties, to insure a vigorous bloom. The flowers are fascicled, 

 (collected in bundles,) level-top or convex; two feet high; in 

 June and July. The double varieties continue to give flowers 

 until autumn. 



L. fulgens, splendid, is a hardy species from Siberia, 

 with scarlet flowers ; one foot and a half high ; not common 

 with us. 



L. coronata is a showy species from China. The flowers 

 are large, solitary, terminal, and axillary, red, the petals torn; 

 one foot and a half high. Unfortunately, this beautiful plant 

 will not stand our winter in open ground ; it therefore requires 

 to be taken up and potted in autumn, and protected in the 

 house or frame. It thrives and flowers abundantly most of the 

 season, if planted out in the spring. It may be raised from 

 seeds or cuttings. 



L.floscuculi. Ragged Robin. This is an old inhabitant 

 of the flower-garden, a native of Britain. The double variety 

 is deservedly esteemed, is very ornamental, easy to cultivate, 

 and flourishes in any common garden soil. It is propagated 

 by divisions of the root. Flowers fine deep pink. 



L. viscaria, with pink ; L. diurna, with purple ; and L. 

 vespertine, with white flowers, all natives of Britain, are hand- 

 some border flowers in their double varieties. 



L. viscaria plena is a fine border flower, and very hardy ; one 

 foot high in June, 



LYSAMACHIA. 

 Loose Strife. 



Most of the species are bog plants, of the easiest culture. 

 L. mummularia, Moneywort, is an ornamental, creep- 



