DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 3387 
and contrast finely with the rich green of the leaves. 
There is a variety with white flowers. It should be 
sheltered from the northerly winds by a fence, trees, or 
buildings. An elegant cone may be made by setting a 
straight pole substantially into the ground, eight feet high 
from the surface; describe a circle round it, having a diam- 
eter of three feet; let about ten pots of plants be turned 
into the circle; drive down a stake by the side of each, 
nearly to the surface, to which tie a strong twine, that 
may be stained or painted green; let it be carried to the 
top of the pole and fastened there; then bring it down to 
the next stakegand so on until the whole is completed. 
With a little assistance the vines will climb the strings, 
and by the middle of August will be at the top of the 
pole, making a splendid show, which more than pays for 
‘the trouble. It may be trained over an arch or in any 
other way as fancy may direct. 
Q. coccinea.— Scarlet Morning Glory— A handsome 
species flowering in great profusion towards the close of 
the season, growing ten feet high; a native of the West 
Indies. The flowers are bright scarlet in one variety, and 
in another, yellow and quite small; from July to the first 
hard frost. The seed may be sown from the Ist to the 
10th of May, or treated like that of the Cypress Vine. 
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RANUNCULUS,—Crow-Foot.—Burrer-Cur. 
[The name is the diminutive of rana, a frog, as some of the species grow in 
damp places.) 
Some of the species are weeds, a few are border-flow- 
ers, and A. Asiaticus is one of the most esteemed florist’s 
flowers. There are a number of varieties of Butter-cups, 
which are found double, and are frequently introduced in- 
to the flower-garden. 
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