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Commelina caelestis, the Dracocephalums, Echinops, 

 most species of Eryngium, Erodium Manescavi, most 

 species of Cranesbill, Gaillardias, Geums, the peren- 

 nial Gypsophilas, Linaria Dalmatica, the perennial 

 Linums, Lobelias, and Lupins, Lychnis chalcedonica, 

 L. Haageana and L. viscaria, Malva moschata, Morina 

 longifolia, CEnothera macrocarpa (or Missouriensis) , 

 (E. speciosa and (E. fruticosa, the perennial Poppies, 

 the Pentstemons, species as well as hybrids, Platy- 

 codon grandiflorum, the Polemoniums, the Potentillas, 

 nearly all the perennial species of Pinks, the Salvias, 

 the Caucasian Scabious, the Statices, and the Violas 

 or Tufted Pansies, as well as many species of Viola 

 — these are only some of the most familiar of our 

 garden plants that can be raised from seed with the 

 most ordinary care. They will all, or nearly all, flower 

 the year after the seed is sown, and most of them will 

 be fine plants by that time. About 60 plants have 

 been obtained from one penny packet of the seed of 

 (Enothera macrocarpa, some of which flowered the 

 same year that the seed was sown. These plants, 

 if bought from a nurseryman, would probably have 

 cost sixpence apiece; so that the transaction, which 

 entailed very little trouble or skill, was a profitable 

 one. 



There are, of course, many plants which are less 

 easy to raise from seed. Either the seed is slow and 

 irregular in germinating, especially when not quite 

 fresh, or the seedlings take a long time to reach ma- 

 turity. It is often difficult, for instance, to get the 



