618 Classification of Plants. 



three feet high ; Leptosiphon species and varieties, various 

 colours, about six inches high ; Linum grandiflorum, rich red, 

 two feet high ; Lupinus affinis, luteus, etc., various colours ; 

 Malcolmia maritima (Virginian Stock), lilac-purple or white, 

 one foot high ; Nemophila various species, dwarf plants, with 

 conspicuous flowers ; Nigella damascena (Love-in-a-Mist), 

 blue, one foot high ; Papaver Rhceas and somniferum (Poppy), 

 numerous varieties ; Convolvulus tricolor varieties ; Pharbitis 

 hispida varieties ; Reseda odorata (Mignonette) ; Saponaria 

 Calabrica, rose or white, one foot high ; Scabiosa atropurpurea, 

 various colours, three feet high ; Sphenogyne speciosa aurea, 

 orange-yellow and black centre, very dwarf; Whitlavia grandi- 

 flora, violet or white, one foot high, etc. 



The tender annuals in cultivation are equally as numerous 

 as the hardy ones, and include many of the handsomer kinds, 

 such as the numerous varieties of Callistephus hortensis (China 

 Aster) ; Tagetes erecta (African Marigold) ; Tagetes patula 

 (French Marigold) ; Zinnia elegans ; Phlox Drummondii ; 

 Helichrysum bracteatum and apiculatum (Everlasting Flowers) ; 

 Matthiola annua (Ten-week and Intermediate Stocks), and 

 Impatiens Balsamina (Balsams), etc. To these we may add 

 the less commonly grown Browallia elata, violet-blue, eighteen 

 inches high ; Calandrinia discolor, rosy pink, one foot high ; 

 Centaurea Americana, lilac-purple, three to four feet high ; 

 Cleome rosea, three feet high ; Clintonia pulchella, blue and 

 white trailer ; many Curcurbitaceae with ornamental fruits ; 

 Datura ceratocaula, white, three feet high ; Graillardia Drum- 

 mondii, crimson and yellow, eighteen inches high ; Gram- 

 manthes gentianoides, orange-red, three or four inches high ; 

 Helipterum species ; Martynia fragrans, bright purple, twelve 

 to eighteen inches high ; Perilla ^ankinensis, purple foliage ; 

 Portulaca grandiflora, varieties ; Rhodanthe Manglesii and 

 rosea, rosy-pink and yellow, about one foot high ; Waitzia 

 acuminata and corymbosa, pink or yellow, about one foot high. 

 This and the preceding genus have everlasting flowers. 



The following is a list of perennial and biennial herbs which 

 will flower the first season. Some of them are perfectly hardy ; 

 whilst others, those with an asterisk prefixed, are tender, and 

 of necessity treated as annuals : *Amrnobium alatum, yellow 

 and white, small-flowered, everlasting, from one to two feet 

 high ; Abronia arenaria, a trailing plant, with fragrant yellow 

 flowers ; *Anagallis linifolia, a trailing plant with blue flowsrs ; 



