442 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



known for its cheerful bright-yellow flowers, though rarely met 

 with, may, with a little care, be preserved through the Hot and 

 Kain seasons. At Ferozepore I raised plants from seed brought 

 from Simla, which survived the Hot season and blossomed 

 prettily. 



Cytisus. 



None of this genus can exist in the plains. Plants of the com- 

 mon Laburnum I have known to be raised from seed, and kept 

 through a Hot season or two, but it has been only to dwindle 

 away, and then die without flowering. 



Lotus. 

 BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL. 



L. Jacobseus. A small, slender shrub, two or three feet high, 

 with graceful airy foliage of ternate leaves, leaflets narrow, linear, 

 an inch long ; bears at all times nearly, but in unbounded pro- 

 fusion in the Cold season, four or five-flowered umbels of small, 

 brilliant, dark chocolate-coloured flowers, contrasting delightfully 

 with the Venetian-green of the foliage. Not an uncommon plant 

 in English gardens, but as found there it affords no idea of the 

 beauty it attains to in this country. There is a variety with 

 bright-yellow flowers. Easily propagated by cuttings laid down 

 in the Kains, or from seeds, which is the better plan. The plants 

 do not display themselves to perfection till the second season of 

 their growth. 



Indigofera. 



INDIGO. 



The plants of this genus are shrubs with pinnate leaves of 

 very small leaflets. The species are very numerous, several 

 natives of India. The following, however, are the only ones 

 perhaps sufficiently ornamental to merit admittance into the 

 garden ; all raised from seed. 



1. I. atropurpurea. A shrub five or six feet high ; bears in 

 the Cold season numerous erect spikes of largish, fine, purple 

 flowers. After having once flowered it becomes unsightly. It 

 is best then to destroy it, and raise fresh plants from seed. 



2. I. violacea. A small shrub, three or four feet high, of ex- 

 quisite beauty in the Cold season, when blossoming with its 

 racemes of small rose-coloured flowers in unbounded profusion. 



