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same time. The dwarf Lobelia (L. Erinus) was not 

 broug-ht over from the Cape of Good Hope till 1752, and 

 Lobelia splendens and fulgens (both from Mexico) not 

 till the nineteenth century. One of the passion-flowers, 

 which are all American, came over about this time ; 

 but Passiflora caerulea, the favourite ornament of the 

 g-reenhouse, was only imported from Brazil in 1699. 

 The evening- primrose, the " convolvulus major and 

 minor " (Ipomaea purpurea and Convolvulus tricolor), 

 were other acquisitions from North America. 



From the second half of the seventeenth century 

 dates the introduction of the garden nasturtium (Tro- 

 paeolum majus) from Peru ; T. minus from Mexico had 

 been brought over nearly a hundred years earlier. The 

 sensitive plants and the pine-apple now became frequent 

 objects in English greenhouses. John Evelyn and 

 Bishop Compton were eminent patrons of English horti- 

 culture during this age. 



The first half of the eighteenth century brought us 

 the Aubretia and the sweet pea from southern Europe, 

 the first Pelargoniums (scarlet geraniums) from the Cape, 

 the camellia and Kerria japonica from the far east. 

 The West Indian heliotrope was introduced in 1713; the 

 better-known Peruvian species not till 1757. Phloxes 

 began to be imported from North America. Two or 

 three foreign orchids were already known, and the 

 number now began to increase ; but it was not till the 

 nineteenth century that they came over in crowds. 

 Our list gives no notion whatever of the number of new- 

 species added now and subsequently. 



Of the accessions made during the latter half of 

 the eighteenth century we must at least mention the 

 mignonette from North Africa, white arabis from the 

 Caucasus, the common rhododendron from Asia Minor. 



