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and is especially adapted for a semi-shady place in the 

 Rock garden. Its little four-petalled flowers are lilac-blue, 

 and very bright and cheerful looking. Once it is sown in 

 the Spring where it is to flower it is little trouble, as it 

 usually sheds seeds freely, and little colonies follow each 

 other, and only need thinning or occasional transplanting 

 to a new site. Both /. acaule and the white variety album 

 require fairly moist soil. The Violet Cress, to give it its 

 popular name, is also known as Cochlearia acaulis. 



IPOMOEA 



" Morning Glory " 



The Annual climber so well-known as Convolvulus major 

 is correctly Ipomoea purpurea {Convolvulacece), and has also 

 been named Pharbitis hispida. Though not perfectly hardy, 

 seeds may be sown out-of-doors early in May with every 

 prospect of success, but stronger plants can be obtained 

 for planting at the end of May or in early June if seeds are 

 sown in gentle heat in March or April. For window boxes, 

 balconies and arches this Ipomoea is specially fitted, and 

 there are enough colour variations to please every one. The 

 seedsmen offer pale and dark blue, crimson, purple, rose, 

 red-striped, blue-striped, and white varieties, and these come 

 wonderfully true. There are double-flowered, as well as the 

 more popular single varieties. 



KOCHIA 



" Belvedere " or *' Summer Cypress " 



The rapidity with which Kochia trichophila {Chenopodiacece) 

 gained popular appreciation after Messrs. H. Cannell and 



