301 GARDEN PLANTS. PART IW 



Datura. 



THORN APPLE. 



Dhootura. 



1. D. alba. A common wayside weed, conspicuous for its large 

 handsome white flowers, but inadmissible into the garden. 



2. D. fastuosa, fl. pi. HOSE-IN-HOSE. Produces immense 

 white blossoms, tinged with purple, remarkably handsome, and 

 resembling in form three or four great extinguishers projecting 

 one a little out of the other. Sow the seed in July. 



3. D. chlorantha fl. pi. Produces great handsome sweet- 

 scented double yellow flowers. The plants will live on after 

 flowering till the following season ; but it is best to destroy 

 them, as they take up much room and look unsightly, and to 

 save the seed for sowing in July. 



Hyoscyamus. 



H. niger HENBANE. Bears large bell-formed, buff-coloured 

 flowers, prettily pencilled with purple ; an ornamental plant 

 when in blossom, though rather unpleasant for its exceedingly 

 rank smell. Sow in October. 



Nicandra. 



N. physaloides ALKEKESGI KITE-FLOWER. An annual of 

 large weedy growth; bears large pale sky-blue flowers of a 

 cupped form, the bottom of the cup being white, and dotted with 

 five dark spots. Sow the seed in common garden soil in October. 



CONVOLYULACE^]. 



Convolvulus. 



C. tricolor CONVOLVULUS MINOR. This beautiful and well- 

 known trailing annual I have not found succeed at all satis- 

 factorily in the vicinity of Calcutta : some seasons it will put 

 forth a flower or two ; but more commonly completes its growth 

 and perishes on the approach of the Hot season without having 

 produced a single blossom. Sow in October in a light rich soil. 



