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plant ; and, above all, do not allow any bloom to appear until it 

 has become strong. 



" Mignonette delights in a sandy loam, not too light ; but being 

 a gross feeder, a little diluted manure-water may be given it once 

 a week with advantage. If this is contemplated, the mould need 

 not be made so rich in the first instance." * 



It must be mentioned, however, that the large bushes, between 

 two and three feet high and the same in breadth, exhibited in 

 England, are the result of two years' growth. 



CAPPAKIDACE.E. 

 Cleome. 



C. viscosa. Grows with an erect stem, two feet high, bearing 

 rose-coloured flowers, curious for the immense distance the pistil 

 with the seed-vessel at the end projects out from among the 

 stamens. The flowers, poor in themselves, form a pretty object 

 clumped several together in a tuft-like head on the summit of 

 the plant. Sow the seed in October. 



BYTTNEKIACE.E. 



Pentapetes. 



P. Phoenicea Doopahdrya. A native of India and a common 

 weed of the rice-fields, but well deserving a place in the garden. 

 It has an erect stem about two feet high, bearing a spike of 

 middle-sized beautiful flowers, unrivalled for their deep carmine 

 colour. There is also a white variety. Sow the seeds in July. 

 The plant blossoms in September and October. 



TROP^EOLACE^E. 

 Tropseolum. 



1. T. majus NASTURTIUM INDIAN CRESS. A more beautiful 

 and showy annual than the Nasturtium is not to be met with. 

 In Lower Bengal scarcely any more care is required in its cul- 

 tivation than, having first enriched the soil with a little old 

 manure, to drop a few seeds in the places where the plants are 

 * ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' No 21, for 1860. 



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