618 Classification of Plants. 
three feet high; Leptosiphon species and varieties, various 
colours, about six inches high ; Linum grandiflorum, rich red, 
two feet high; Lupinus affinis, luteus, etc., various colours ; 
Malcolmia maritima (Virginian Stock), lilac-purple or white, 
one foot high ; Nemophila various species, dwarf plants, with 
conspicuous flowers; Nigella damascena (Love-in-a-Mist), 
blue, one foot high; Papaver Rhceas and somniferum (Poppy), 
numerous varieties; Convolvulus tricolor varieties; Pharbitis 
hispida varieties; Reseda odorata (Mignonette); Saponaria 
Calabrica, rose or white, one foot high ; Scabiosa atropurpurea, 
various colours, three feet high; Sphenogyne speciosa aurea, 
orange-yellow and black centre, very dwarf; Whitlavia grandi- 
flora, violet or white, one foot high, etc. 
The tender annuals in cultivation are equally as numerous 
as the hardy ones, and include many of the handsomer kinds, 
such as the numerous varieties of Callistephus hortensis (China 
Aster); Tagetes erecta (African Marigold); Tagetes patula 
(French Marigold); Zinnia elegans; Phlox Drummondii ; 
Helichrysum bracteatum and apiculatum (Everlasting Flowers) ; 
Matthiola annua (Ten-week and Intermediate Stocks), and 
Impatiens Balsamina (Balsams), etc. To these we may add 
the less commonly grown Browallia elata, violet-blue, eighteen 
inches high; Calandrinia discolor, rosy pink, one foot high ; 
Centaurea Americana, lilac-purple, three to four feet high ; 
Cleome rosea, three feet high; Clintonia pulchella, blue and 
white trailer; many Curcurbitacew with ornamental fruits ; 
Datura ceratocaula, white, three feet high; Gaillardia Drum- 
mondii, crimson and yellow, eighteen. inches high ; Gram- 
manthes gentianoides, orange-red, three or four inches high; 
Helipterum species ; Martynia fragrans, bright purple, twelve 
to eighteen inches high ; Perilla Nankinensis, purple foliage ; 
Portulaca grandiflora, varieties; Rhodanthe Manglesii and 
rosea, rosy-pink and yellow, about one foot high; Waitzia 
acuminata and corymbosa, pink or yellow, about one foot high. 
This and the preceding genus have everlasting flowers. 
The following is a list of perennial and biennial herbs which 
will flower the first season. Some of them are perfectly hardy ; 
whilst others, those with an asterisk prefixed, are tender, and 
of necessity treated as annuals: *Ammobium alatum, yellow 
and white, small-flowered, everlasting, from one to two feet 
high ; Abronia arenaria, a trailing plant, with fragrant yellow 
flowers ; *Anagallis linifolia, a trailing plant with blue flowers ; 
