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You will find two kinds of Penstemon, (or 

 beard-tongue) and Lychnis coronaria. The 

 latter is a most splendid flower, and I should 

 recommend its roots to be taken up in the 

 autumn and potted, as it is an herbaceous plant, 

 and cuttings of it may be struck, next spring, 

 when it shoots up. 



I think you will be pleased with the pretty 

 purple Verbena aubletia ; but the very eye of 

 the packet is the Verbena melindris. Its bright, 

 deep, rich scarlet, surpasses even the best 

 geranium's colour : it grows as freely as grass : 

 every slip you stick into a pot strikes root, and 

 soon flowers. It will not stand the winter 

 any more than the Verbena aubletia; so that 

 you must plant some cuttings in pots in the 

 month of August, and keep them in a green- 

 house through the winter. 



There is in the basket one plant, Cheiranthus 



