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of crimson flowers of the size of a four-anna piece, which open 

 only in the sunshine ; does not bear transplanting well, but 

 succeeds best with the treatment recommended for Portulaca. 

 To have fine flowers Sir J. Paxton directs that it should be 

 watered once or twice with liquid manure. 



NYCTAGINACE^]. 

 Abronia. 



1. A. umbellata. A very beautiful trailing annual ; bears globu- 

 lar heads of lilac, fragrant flowers, in character much resembling 

 those of a Verbena. The seed should be sown in October, and 

 the plants will be in full blossom in February, and will die off 

 on the first approach of the hot weather. The young seedlings 

 require great attention, as being of a succulent nature they are 

 very apt to damp off, as well as to be devoured by birds. They 

 are best planted out in wide pans about eight inches deep. 



2. A. arenaria. A new species, producing yellow honey- 

 scented flowers. 



AMAEANTACE^]. 



Gomphrena. 



G. globosa GLOBE AMARANTH Gool-Mulvmul. One of the 

 most valuable annuals of our Indian gardens, which it enlivens 

 with a perpetual profusion of its ball-formed purple, orange, and 

 white blossoms, throughout the whole Rain season. Sow the 

 seed in June. A Hen and Chicken variety is sometimes met 

 with. 



Amaranthus. 



1. A. tricolor. An annual remarkable for some of its leaves 

 being blotched with red, and others of them entirely of that 

 colour. Sow the seed in July. A single patch of two or three 

 plants is pretty enough, but many of them present rather a 

 weedy appearance. 



2. A. caudatus LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING. A well-known old 

 plant of the English gardens, with drooping tail-like flower-stems 

 of crimson flowers. 3. A. hypochondriacus PRINCE'S FEATHER. 

 The leaves and stems of this beautiful annual are of a rich 



