28 iSQUIRREL COHX. 



All the species flourish under cultivation, and become very 

 ornamentjil early border flowers; but care should be taken to plant 

 them in rich black vegetable mould, the native soil of their forest 

 haunts. 



Our artist has chosen the delicate rosy-tinted variety as the 

 subject ol' the right hand flower of the plate. 



