MIMULUS, Nat. Ord. Scrophulariacea:. 



The Mimuli, sometimes called Monkey Flowers, are beautiful, tender looking plants. The 



branches are almost trans- 

 parent and quite succulent, 

 and are eas ^y broken by 



the wind - For baskets 



under the shelter of veran- 

 dahs, vases, and for culture 

 in the house, not many 

 plants will give more satis- 

 faction. M. cardinalis does very well in the garden. Flowers of the Mimulus are very brilliant. 



MYOSOTIS, Nat. Ord. Boraginacees. 



Perennial plants, that flower the first season if sown early, bearing small white and blue flowers. 

 Delight in a rather moist situation. Fine for moist rock-work. All 

 the blue varieties are commonly called Forget-me-not. M. pa- 

 lustris is the old and popular Forget-me-not. 

 The branches cut and placed in water will 

 continue to bloom a long time, almost as 

 well as if on the plant, and will often make 

 roots, and considerable growth. Seed may 

 be sown in the hot-bed and transplanted as 

 early as possible, or may be sown in the 

 open ground in the spring, so as to get a good growth before the hot, dry weather of summer. 



NEMOPHILA, Nat. Ord. Hydrophyllacea. 



EMOPHILAS are pretty, delicate, hardy annuals, throwing up 

 their slender flower stems a few inches. The leaves are very 

 pretty in form, and of a delicate, lively 

 green, and, if the plants are grown in 

 masses, have a mossy appearance. The 

 flowers are mainly blue and white, and of 

 the forms shown in the engravings. They 

 are native Americans, and yet flourish 

 much better in the moist climate of Brit- 

 ain than here. Nemophilas were first found 

 fifty years since, in shady, moist places 



on the banks of the Missouri River. This fact shows why they will not 

 better endure our hot, dry summers. No annual is grown with greater 

 success in England than the Nemophila, and we hardly think as exten- 

 sively. On the high land in Calaveras 



County, California, and in the neighborhood of the big trees, 

 we saw acres of Nemophilas, beautifying the waste land, and 

 finer than we ever saw them 

 in the gardens of Europe or 

 America. They do best if 

 sown in a frame and trans- 

 planted early, as the hot sun 

 injures the flowers ; but do 

 finely all summer, if planted 

 in a rather cool, shady place. 

 Set about six inches apart. A 

 few plants set early among 

 spring-flowering bulbs, such 

 as Tulips, etc., flower splen- 

 didly, and a few seeds scat- 

 tered over the beds of bulbs will render a very good accouut of themselves in the early spring. 



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