No. 588. 
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 
Class, 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This plant grows from Canada to 
Carolina, in woods on dry hills. It was 
cultivated before 1759, at the Chelsea gar- 
den, by Philip Miller, but is nevertheless 
far from common. It is said that a coarse 
kind of Indigo was formerly manufactured 
from it, With us it is quite hardy, and 
forms a neat herbaceous plant, growing 
about two feet high, thriving either in a pot 
or in the full ground, and flowering in 
plenty during the summer. The soil should 
be loam and peat, and it may be sparingly 
increased by dividing the roots, for which 
operation the spring is the best season. 
