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which blossom often the same season that the seed is sown, but 

 more beautifully, as it appeared to me, when kept over till the 

 following Cold season, at the commencement of which they 

 should be taken up and planted in fresh soil, well enriched. 



Collinsia. 



C. bicolor. An annual of loose, untidy habit, about a foot and 

 a half high, rather pretty and effective in the border when in 

 full blossom, with its profusion of blue and white flowers borne 

 in a succession of whorls up the stem. Sow the seed in 

 October; it will be in flower by the end of January. 



Chaenostoma. 



C. polyanthum. Bears small, insignificant pink flowers ; in my 

 opinion little better than a mere weed. 



Mimulus. 



M. speciosus MONKEY-FLOWER. A plant of prostrate growth ; 

 bears large, handsome, gape-mouthed, orange-crimson flowers, 

 with several varieties ; maculosus, tiger-spotted or golden-yellow 

 blotched with chestnut-colour ; one white spotted with crimson ; 

 and duplex, one with double or hose-in-hose flowers. These never 

 should be omitted from a collection of annuals -in an Indian 

 garden. The seed is very minute, and the best way to sow it is 

 to mix it first largely with pure silver-sand, and then cast pinches 

 of the mixture upon broad pans filled with a light soil, in which 

 sand is an abundant ingredient. The seed-pans should not be 

 watered from above, but be put, when the soil in them is becom- 

 ing dry, into larger pans filled with water, until the whole earth 

 has become moistened by the water, passing through the holes 

 below. Prick out the seedlings, when large enough, into single 

 pots ; they are benefited by frequent repotting. They require a 

 rich soil, in which a large proportion of silver-sand is incorporated. 

 The plants are all but aquatics, and do best with the pots in 

 which they grow, kept continually standing in pan-feeders. 



