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garden at Ferozepore ; but to be cultivated to perfection it 

 should be grown in a shady spot in a light rich soil of leaf -mould, 

 if obtainable ; the roots should always be kept moist, and the 

 collar of the plant always dry. In the vicinity of Calcutta I 

 have found it best to reserve the larger portion of the seed of 

 this annual till late in November before sowing, as it will not 

 germinate readily till the Cold weather is quite set in : much, if 

 not the whole of the seed that is sown earlier, either in gumlahs 

 or in the open ground, is almost sure to perish. 



2. N. discoidalis. Bears small, dark-puce, not very showy 

 flowers. 3. N. atomaria. Small white flowers, dotted all over ; 

 not very interesting. And 4. N. maculata. Little inferior to 

 N. insignis in beauty ; rather large white flowers, with a purple 

 blotch on each petal. 



Eutoca. 



1 . Eu. viscida. A handsone annual ; bears numerous bunches 

 of crowded bright-blue moderate-sized flowers ; said to thrive best 

 in a poor gravelly soil, and that branches of it continue growing 

 and flowering two or three weeks after gathered. 



2. Eu. Wrangeliana. An annual of straggling untidy growth ; 

 produces crowded bunches of lavender-coloured, not very showy 

 flowers. Sow in October. 



Phacelia. 



P. tanacetifolia. An annual of remarkably beautiful foliage, 

 somewhat resembling in manner of growth a very handsome 

 Fern. The flowers, small blue, and of not much merit, are borne 

 curiously upon a long curled spike like that of the Heliotrope. 

 If much wet is allowed to lie upon the collar of the stem, the 

 plants are very apt to rot off, particularly when just about to 

 blossom. Sow seed in October. 



Whitlavia. 



W. grandiflora. An annual of recent introduction and of great 

 beauty ; thrives and blossoms well in our Indian gardens ; bears 

 numerous bright, pure-blue, small, bell-shaped flowers. Sow in 

 October. There is a variety with white flowers. 



