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plant's growth, plants having more than one such comb when 

 young should be thrown away. 



Coleus, Biennial. Popularly called the nettle leaved Gera- 

 nium, and formerly named Plectranthus fruticosus, has been of 

 late so extensively hybridised and improved, that it became the 

 fashionable foliage novelty of 1868. The leaves are strikingly 

 cut or serrated presenting a fringed appearance, the colours in 

 different varieties embrace golden yellow, magenta, crimson, 

 purple, claret, black and green, while the leaf markings and 

 blotches are varied almost indefinitely, making them immensely 

 attractive, they are easily raised from seed in the rains or by 

 cuttings in sand under glass. 



Collinsia Scrophulariacece, Collinsia Grandiflora. Theseplants 

 are mostly all of a bright colour, and well adapted for borders to 

 a flower garden, the colours are mostly yellow ; but the Scabri- 

 uscula is red and yellow, these plants require a tolerable good 

 soil with plenty of water. 



Columbine. Vide Aquilegia. 



Commelyna, Commelynacece. Some of the plants of these genus 

 are very handsome, the colour of the flowers mostly blue, and 

 propagated by dividing the tubers. 



Convolvulus, Ipomoea. Ipomoeas are all hardy, and easily raised 

 from seed if annuals, from layers if perennial. Convolvulus 

 Major, of this class Dicksoni, Crimson and Burridgi, deep blue, 

 black and Annei, striped are the best. 



Ipomcea Hederacea and Huberi Japanese convolvoli, with white 

 edges to many hued flowers and marbled leaves, are very hand- 

 some trailers, do well, sown rather far, apart and pegged down 

 like Verbenas in the rainy season only. They are hardly clim- 

 bers, flowering near the ground. Ipomoea rubro-coerulea, the large 

 true blue Mexican convolvolus is a striking object in flower, in 

 September and October. Sown in June and July, it becomes a 

 great creeper ; sown in October it is dwarfed to a small trailer, 

 and grows well in a bed, with yellow and orange Nasturtiums. 



Corrwa, Eutacece. The species of this genus are mostly shrubs, 

 the flowers, white and scarlet, each plant requires a tolerable space 



