NEW ANNUALS. 79 



and I think you will find this the best month to 

 take the cuttings. 



Among --the annuals I send, are three new 

 sorts, of our own North American plants : pray 

 give them the best places under your wall. 



They are marked Clarkia pulchella, Escholt- 

 zia Californica, and JEnothera Lindlyana. Es- 

 choltzia cannot properly be called an annual, 

 because its root, if taken up and kept during 

 the winter in sand, will flower again when 

 replanted in the spring ; or it will live in a dry 

 situation through the winter. Its beautiful deep 

 chrome yellow flowers are not unlike those of 

 the horned poppy, which I have seen on the 

 sea-shore. I find that this plant sows itself so 

 freely, that, wherever I have planted it, I have 

 the next year had hundreds of young seedlings 

 come up round the old plant. 



There are many plants that are more easily 



