318 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
saved from good sorts, a great diversity of fine seedlings 
may be expected. The last season I sowed seed imported 
from Prussia, from which I obtained thirty distinct varie- 
ties, and most of them very beautiful. In October the 
best of them were taken up and potted, and kept through 
the winter, but at the time of potting were reduced to 
about ten or twelve inches in height. 
The choice varieties are easily increased from cuttings. 
The best time is late in the summer or in September, from 
plants that have been headed down for that purpose; but 
where there is a green-house, and the plants have been pot- 
ted, cuttings may be taken and struck any time in winter. 
Double flowers are rarely produced from seed of the 
single varieties, unless they are fecundated with great care 
with double varieties; they are usually raised from cut- 
tings. Nurserymen generally, have not only the double 
varieties for sale, but also the finest single ones, and this is 
perhaps the most economical way of procuring plants for 
a small garden. One plant, if permitted to spread, will 
often occupy a space a yard square. Unless they are 
planted in masses they look best when trained upright to 
a neat stake, bringing them into a pyramidal form, or on a 
small trellis, as fancy may direct. There is no plant in the 
garden that will make more show than this when properly 
managed, for it continues nearly until November with a 
profusion of flowers. 
PHACELIA. 
[Name from the Greek for fascicle, as the flowers are often clustered.] 
The genus Hutoca, is now united with Phacelia, and 
those which in the former edition of the work were called 
Eutocas are now placed here. ; 
Phacélia viscida.—A native of California, whence it 
was sent to England by Mr. Douglas, the botanist. A 
