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velvety-crimson flowers. These hybrid Carinas vary in height 

 from i8in. to 4ft., and flower during the late summer and autumn. 



Daturas are handsome massive-foliaged plants, with large 

 trumpet-shaped flowers, and are much admired. The half-hardy 

 annuals may be easily raised from seed sown in a hotbed in 

 early spring, potting up singly, and finally planting out into a 



Fig. 92. — Datura meteloides. 



light, warm soil in June. D. ceratocaula grows 3ft. high, and in 

 July produces large sweet-scented flowers, with green tubes, and 

 white corollas tinged with pink. D. cornucopia, (i|ft. high) has 

 large flowers formed of three layers, one within the other, like 

 three cones. They are rich purple in colour, with white throats. 

 D. meteloides (D. Wrightii, Fig. 92) is a handsome plant, growing 

 2ft. high, and bearing white flowers bordered with lilac. 



