BARTONIA, Nat. Ord. Loasacca. 



Bartonia aurea is a very showy, half-hardy annual. It is a native of California, and was 

 found there nearly forty years ago by the unfortunate DOUGLAS, who discovered so many 

 ornamental annuals in California and South America, which he 

 introduced to European florists, and who finally sacrificed his life to 

 his botanical zeal by falling into a pit placed 

 to entrap wild cattle, on the Sandwich Is- 

 lands, while on a botanical excursion. The 

 leaves are somewhat thistle-like in appear- 

 ance, gray and downy. The flowers are 

 double the size shown in the engraving, of a 

 very bright, metallic yellow, and exceed- 

 ingly brilliant in the sunshine. It likes 

 considerable moisture, and in a drouth the 

 young plants sometimes suffer. We saw it flowering beautifully, in June, on the mountain sides 

 in the neighborhood of the Yosemite Valley, but not in large quantities. As it does not bear trans- 

 planting very well, we sow seed in the garden early, and in that way get good plants and flowers. 



BRACHYCOME, Nat. Ord. Composite. 



The Brachycome iberidifolia is a daisy-like flower, found on the banks of the Swan River, in 

 Australia, and sometimes called Swan River Daisy. It is an elegant little plant, growing only 

 about eight inches in height, of a branching, compact habit, 

 with deeply cut foliage and abundance of flowers, of the size 

 and appearance of which our engraving will give a good idea, 

 and bearing more resemblance to the Cin- 

 eraria, perhaps, than any other flower. 

 Colors blue and white, with a dark eye. 

 For a bed or mass, set the plants six or 

 eight inches apart. Neither this simple 

 description nor the engraving will give 

 the reader a sufficiently favorable idea of 

 the pretty, daisy-like flowers, and the 

 compact, rounded form of this beautiful plant, which is deserving of far more attention than it 

 has ever received. 



BROWALLIA, Nat. Ord. Scropkulariacea. 



The Browallias are excellent, free flowering, half-hardy annuals, mostly from South America. 

 The flowers are beautiful and delicate, the engraving showing the natural size. Seeds grow quite 

 freely and the plant gives abundance of bloom. Plants about eighteen 

 inches in height, and should be set a foot apart This, though not a 

 showy, is a very interesting class of flowers ; in fact, they belong, like the 

 Clarkia, the Nemophila, and Whitlavia, to a modest, 

 and therefore unappreciated, family, which we like much 

 better than we usually say, because they are not showy 

 enough to please everybody, and we do not like to be 

 the cause of disappointment, even to unreasonable 

 people. For several years past, however, the taste for 

 th e culture of the more delicate flowers has been rapidly 

 improving, and instead of being scolded for over-praising 

 some little favorite, it will be recollected, many readers 

 have complained because we said so little when so much 

 With this progress we are well pleased. 



could be spoken with truth. 



