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NICOTIA'NA continued. 



N. Sanderce. For pot work should be sown in May 

 in a light soil. Gentle heat will quickly start 

 the seed into growth. Prick off into pans and 

 later into small pots, keeping them in a shady 

 frame. Final repotting into 6-in. pots of good 

 loam and coarse sand will be required a little 

 later. Eeturn to the frame for a few days 

 only, when they may be arranged in ashes 

 outdoors, but returned to a cool house before 

 frost can touch them. Early in the year the 

 conservatory should be gay with these flowers. 



NIEREMBER'GIA phoeni'cea. See PETUNIA violacea. 



NIGELLA Fennel Flower, Love-in-a-Mist, Lady-in-the- 

 Bower, Jack-in- Prison, Devil-in-the-Bush, Ragged- 

 Lady (from L. nigellus, diminutive of niger, black, 

 in reference to the colour of the seeds). Nat Ord. 

 Ranunculacece. 



A hardy family of pretty annuals having some- 

 what curious long-stemmed flowers surrounded by 

 a green feathery setting of Fennel-like foliage. 

 The plants are branched and erect, the foliage 

 being beautifully light and graceful. The flower- 

 ing season is from July to October. 



N. damasce'na. Probably the best known of the 

 group, has flowers of pale lavender blue, about 

 1J ft. high. Common in S. Europe, 1570. 

 Nigella Miss Jekyll is a new improved 

 strain of much merit. 



