FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
Schizopetalon Walkeri (Walker’s) is the only species 
species. cu itivated in this country, where it was introduced seventy- 
five years ago. It is about 2 feet high, covered with down, the 
individual hairs of which are branched. The flowers are white in long 
racemes, each footstalk furnished with a long slender bract. The seed- 
pod is extremely slender. The seedlings are as remarkable as the cut 
petals, for they are provided with no less than four spirally twisted 
cotyledons. The flowers appear from May to August. 
The seeds should be sown in spring, in pots filled with 
a compost of peat, loam, and sand; raised in the greenhouse, 
and afterwards carefully planted out in a sunny border. To ripen seeds 
a few plants should be grown in the greenhouse, but even there they will 
not be produced in great number. In the warmer parts of the country 
the seeds may be sown in February on a sunny border, where they will 
readily germinate and produce good plants by midsummer. 
VIRGINIAN STOCK 
Natural Order Cruciferas. Genus Malcolmia 
Malcolmia (name commemorative of William Malcolm, a London 
nurseryman of the last century). A genus of about twenty herbs, 
mostly hardy annuals, of varying habit. They have branching stems, 
with alternate, roughish, toothed or sinuate leaves, and flowers destitute 
of bracts, disposed in racemes; purple or white. They are distinguished 
from their nearest allies by having an awl-shaped stigma, and a roundish 
seed-pod thickened at the base. The species are mostly natives of the 
Mediterranean and Caspian regions, but few of them are cultivated. 
Malcolmia littorea has been known in our gardens 
for a longer period than M. maritima, for the former 
was introduced from South Europe more than two hundred years ago, 
whilst the latter was not brought from the same neighbourhood until 
early in the last century, and was followed about twenty years later by 
M. chia from Greece. M. maritiTna has long been a favourite iu 
gardens, from the ease with which it is grown, its disregard of poverty 
of soil, and its suitability as an edging for beds and borders. 
species. Malcolmia chia. Native of Ohio, Greece. Stems 
branching, 6 to 12 inches; radical leaves egg-shaped or spoon¬ 
shaped ; stem leaves narrower and more pointed, mostly entire, downy 
beneath. Flowerspurplishlilac,about three-eighths of an inch across; June. 
