318 breck's new book of flowers. 



saved from good sorts, a great diversity of fine seedlings 

 may be expected. The last season I sowed seed imported 

 from Prussia, from which I obtained thirty distinct varie- 

 ties, and most of them very beautiful. In October the 

 best of them were taken up and potted, and kept through 

 the winter, but at the time of potting were reduced to 

 about ten or twelve inches in height. 



The choice varieties are easily increased from cuttings. 

 The best time is late in the summer or in September, from 

 plants -that have been headed down for that purpose ; but 

 where there is a green-house, and the plants have been pot- 

 ted, cuttings may be taken and struck any time in winter. 



Double flowers are rarely produced from seed of the 

 single varieties, unless they are fecundated with great care 

 with double varieties ; they are usually raised from cut- 

 tings. Nurserymen generally, have not only the double 

 varieties for sale, but also the finest single ones, and this is 

 perhaps the most economical way of procuring plants for 

 a small garden. One plant, if permitted to spread, will 

 often occupy a space a yard square. Unless they are 

 planted in masses they look best whejj trained upright to 

 a neat stake, bringing them into a pyramidal form, or on a 

 small trellis, as foncy may direct. There is no plant in the 

 garden that will make more show than this when properly 

 managed, for it continues nearly until November with a 

 profusion of flowers. 



PHACELIA. 



[Name from the Greek {or fascicle, as the flowers are often clustered.] 



The genus Eutoca^ is now united with Phacelia^ and 

 those wliich in the former edition of the work were called 

 Eiitocas are now placed here. 



Phac^lia viscidat — A native of California, whence it 

 was sent to England by Mr. Douglas, the botanist. A 



