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pulchella ; Phlox Drumrnondii, with its varieties ; Campanula stricta ; Ipo 

 inopsis elegans ; Argernone grandiflora ; Didiscus coeruleus ; Iponiopsu 

 elegans ; Hunnemannia fuinariaefolia ; Ageraturn Mexicanutn ; Limnan- 

 thus Douglassii ; Blumenbachia incana, multifida ; Heliophila araboides ; 

 Hibiscus Africanus ; Cosmus tenuifolius ; Calandrina discolor, grandiflora; 

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

 straminea ; Aniaranthus caudatus. 



Tender Annuals. — Impatiens Balsamina, Browallia elata, Celosia cristata 

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

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

 gia 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 elegans , 

 Loasa Pentlandica ; Martynia proboscidea ; Lisianthus Russellianus. 



We 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 Pelargonia, Verbenae, Salvias, 

 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 grow 

 vigorously, and in August or September present, in luxuri- 

 ance at least, a better specimen of their native vegetation 



* Additi mal lists in Appendix. 



