VII. LIST OF FLOWHES. 



and fibrous -, it rises three inches high or more, anil 

 spreads very fast. The variety with bright scarlet 

 flower, which comes in May and lasts throughout tfce 

 month of June, should find a place in small borders, but 

 it should be regularly parted every year to prevent its 

 spreading too widely. 



538. TIGER-FLOWER. Lat, Tigridia pavoniaPr. 

 Tigridie panachee. A very beautiful bulbous plant from 

 Mexico. Grows from one to two feet high ; with nar- 

 row sword-shaped leaves, and a stalk longer than these, 

 which, in the month of July, blows many flowers of a 

 yellow or scarlet colour beautifully spotted with purple. 

 The flowers never come out more than one or two at a 

 time, and they last but six hours, when they drop, and 

 are, the next day, succeeded by others. This plant is not 

 quite hardy ; therefore, the best way to cultivate it in the 

 open ground is as you do your superior hyacinths, taking 

 it up when its leaves decay, and keeping it out of ground 

 and in a dry place, till spring, when you replant it in the 

 bed or in*the border. In pots, in the green-house, it does 

 very well, but not better than in the open air when 

 treated as above, and in a suitable soil $ namely, a fine and 

 somewhat light and deep garden mould. Propagate by 

 separating the offsets from the mother bulbs, and treating 

 them as you do tulips. 



539. TOAD-FLAX, ivy-leaved. Lat. Linaria cymba- 

 laria. Fr. Linaire cymbalaire. A hardy annual plant, 

 found on old walls ; which, hanging over the sides of a 

 pot, will blow a pale purple flower during the whole of 

 the summer. Propagated by seed. 



