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largely grown. These are C. elegans and C. pulchella. The 

 former species comes from California and the latter from 

 Oregon. In C. elegans the lobes of the flower are entire, while 

 in C. pulchella these are more or less lobed. The varieties of 

 C. elegans are the most beautiful, and the leading sorts are 

 Double Pink, Double Salmon, Snowball, double white ; 

 Firefly, double scarlet-crimson ; Scarlet Beauty, scarlet ; 

 and Purple King, purplish-carmine. Of C. pulchella there 

 are white, rose, and carmine shades, bdth double and single. 



It must not be forgotten that Clarkias are particularly 

 valuable for cutting, their elegance and Ix-auty when arranged 

 on a dining or sitting-room table being always appreciated. 



COLLINSIA 

 " Collins Flower " 



These Hardy Annuals (Scrophulariacecg) have the merit 

 of being good town plants. They grow about a foot high, 

 and produce their double-lipped flowers in whorls along the 

 greater part of their growth. The most popular species is 

 C. bicolor, white and lilac-purple ; and C. b. candidissimay 

 wholly white, and a little dwarfer than the type. Other 

 species worthy of trial are C. bartsiaefolia, of which there is 

 a white and a purple variety ; C. corymbosa, white and blue ; 

 C. grandifiora, purplish-blue ; C. parvifiora, a trailer, with 

 purple and blue flowers ; C. sparsiflora, violet ; C. iinctoria, 

 pink; C. verna, purple and blue, very pretty; and C. violacea 

 violet and white. 



It is a good plan to make both an Autumn and a Spring 

 sowing of Collinsias, so as to prolong the flowering season. 

 C. verna flowers in Spring and should be sown in Autumn. 



