104 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 



The Browallias may be advantageously employed to 

 embellish the greenhouse and conservatory during the 

 summer. For this purpose we have not so great a variety 

 of flowers as may appear from a casual consideration of the 

 subject, because a large proportion of decorative plants 

 thrive so much better when planted out than when kept in 

 pots and flowered under glass. These little tropical forget- 

 me-nots enjoy the shelter and comparatively uniform tem- 

 perature of the greenhouse during the summer, and in 

 places where the climate is usually unfavourable to tender 

 plants in the open ground it is advisable not to plant 

 them out, but to grow fine pot specimens for flowering 

 in-doors. Then it will be found that the two varieties of 

 B. elata, giving flowers white and blue ; with B. pulchella, 

 with flowers rosy purple; B. grandiflora, with flowers 

 yellow ; and B. Jamesoni, with flowers orange will make 

 an interesting collection. Associate with them a few fine 

 pot specimens of the delicate schizanthus, and the conserva- 

 tory will not lack interest and beauty. 



