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which were received from the late Mr. Drummond, ia 

 1835, and was named by Dr. Hooker after its indefati- 

 gable discoverer as a tribute of respect to him It 

 was then considered doubtful whether it would prove an 

 annual or perennial, and the writer who first described it, 

 says : — " Should this lovely species turn out to be an an- 

 nual, which to all appearance it will, it must be regarded 

 as a novel feature in this favorite genus. The plant is 

 perfectly hardy, and will prove a great ornament to the 

 flower-garden." This we have found to be true, and 

 wonder how the old gardeners could get along without 

 this splendid flower, which if beautiful as it was first de- 

 scribed by the person who received the seeds from its na- 

 tive locality in Texas, how much more so in its improved 

 state, with its varieties of brilliant crimson, scarlet, purple, 

 white, and variegated flowers. " The plant is about one 

 foot high, covered with long hairs. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 tube long, very hairy, pale-rose colored ; limb spreading, 

 pale-rose colored without, rich rosy-red within ; eye, deep 

 crimson ; throat, yellow." This is the original description 

 of it when first received, but it has since sported into a 

 great variety of colors. It is propagated from seeds, 

 which, if sown in a hot-bed in March and planted out in 

 June, will flower profusely from the first of July to No- 

 vember For masses of separate colors it is not surpassed 

 by any other bedding-plant. The plants should be placed 

 six inches apart each way, to make a solid mass of bloom. 

 Plants from seed sown late in autumn, will be a fortnight 

 in advance of those sown in the open ground m May. It 

 will flourish best in a rich, but rather light soil. 



