64 ANTIRRHINUM SPECIOSUM. GAMBEL's SNAP-DRAGON. 



Dr. Palmer says he found our species " Frequent in the 

 crevices of high rocks in the middle of the island, very orna- 

 mental, the bright scarlet flowers continuing all summer." 

 This fact may help those who desire to cultivate the plant. 

 Thouo-h ice forms sometimes an inch thick on Guadalupe Island, 

 it is not likely the species would be entirely hardy enough to 

 endure the open air of any but the extreme Southern States. 

 But it can be kept alive in what are known as cold-houses, and 

 it would probably well repay any care in this respect by 

 blooming freely most of the next summer, from the earliest 

 spring months, when planted in the open ground. It is easily 

 raised from cuttings, as we know by some which are growing 

 freely as we write. There could certainly be nothing more 

 beaudful in one's garden than a shrub " three or four feet high," 

 covered by such showy colored flowers as appear in our plate. 



