SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



nally from North America, and blows a violet coloured 

 flower in May and June. It grows three or four inches 

 highj and likes a light soil and is propagated by parting 

 the offsets, or seed which should be managed like the 

 tulip only that it requires less pains. 



548. WILLOW-HERB, the rose bay.- Lat. Epilobium 

 augustifolium. Fr. Ephilobe a epi. A native perennial 

 plant, owing its vulgar name to the resemblance of its 

 leaf to that of the common willow. It grows three or 

 four feet high, sends up innumerable branches, which are 

 decked thinly all the way up by narrow pointed leaves, 

 and, towards the tops of these branches, it bears a peach 

 blossom flower in July and August. It is a troublesome 

 thing in a flower border, on account of the great quantity 

 of stems that it sends up from its very wide-spreading 

 root, aHdj on this account (as well as on account of its 

 height not suiting a border) it is not cultivated in it, but 

 is generally amongst the front rows of the shrubbery. 

 The soil that it likes best is a moist one, but it does not 

 refuse a pretty dry one. There is a white variety; both 

 propagated by dividing the roots in the fall. 



549. XERANTHEMUM annual, or immortal herb. 

 Lat. Xeranthemum annuum. Fr. Immortelle des jardins. 

 A plant from the South of Europe. About a foot high, 

 and blows in July and August, a purplish flower. Pro- 

 pagated from seed sowed in the open greund where it is 

 to grow. When it is in a warm situation it propagates 

 itself. 







550. ZINNIA. Lat. Zinnia multiflora.Fr. Zinnia mul- 



