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ROCKET. 



HESPERIS. 



CRUCIFER^E. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOS,E. 



Hesperis is from the Greek, and signifies evening ; the flowers are 

 so called because they smell sweetest at that time. English, Rocket ; 

 Dame's-violets ; Damask- violets ; Queen 's-gilliflowers ; Rogue's-gilli- 

 flowers; Winter-gilliflowers ; and Close-sciences. French, la Juli- 

 enne ; la Juliana ; la cassolette [smelling-bottle] ; la giroflee musquee 

 [musk pink] ; la giroflee des dames [ladies' pink] ; la violette des dames 

 [dame's violet] ; la Juliane de nuit [night Juliana] . Italian, esperide ; 

 Giuliana ; viola matronale [housewifes* violet] ; bella Giulia [pretty 

 Julia]. 



THE species called the Night-smelling Rocket is much 

 cultivated for the evening fragrance of the flowers, which in- 

 duces the ladies in Germany to keep it in pots in their apart- 

 ments, whence it obtained the name of Dame's-violets. 



These flowers are generally biennial, and flower but 

 once ; they must therefore be frequently supplied. A strong 

 root of each kind desired should be set apart, not suffered to 

 flower ; but when the flower-stems have shot up six inches 

 high, they should be cut down close to the bottom : these 

 stalks may each be cut into two pieces, and both halves 

 planted in a soft loamy earth, and placed where they may 

 enjoy the morning sun. They should then be well watered 

 and covered with glasses, round the rims of which the earth 

 should be drawn close, to exclude the air. When the sun 

 is hot, these glasses should be shaded. Once a week the 

 cuttings should be watered, and again carefully covered. 

 With this management they will put out roots in five or six 

 weeks, and begin to shoot above : then the glasses should be 

 a little raised on one side, to admit the air, and gradually 

 to harden them. When they have taken good root, replant 

 them in pots about ten inches in diameter, observing to 



