THE BEOWALLIA. 



Browallia elata. 



not little things possess a special 

 value of their own, as great or 

 even exceeding the value of larger 

 things ? Pearls, rubies, emeralds, 

 diamonds, and forget-me-nots, for 

 instance, which are certainly small 

 as compared with cabbages, cauli- 

 flowers, and pumpkins. And hav- 

 ing mentioned forget-me-nots, 

 we are tempted to speak of this 

 Browallia as the American, or 

 more properly, perhaps, the Occi- 

 dental forget-me-not, for it comes 

 from the tropical parts of the 

 western continent, which nobody 

 ever thinks of when America is 

 mentioned, the northern parts 



thereof having a monopoly of our attention. There is 

 another and nearly allied species called B. demissa, but 

 it is not much grown, for the simple reason that it is 

 not so good a plant as elata, of which there are two 

 varieties the blue, which is here figured, and the white, 

 which diffei-s only in the colour of the flowers. 



To grow this pretty annual it is necessary to sow the 



