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gantly cut into entire, toothed, or deeply 

 incised lobes. Flowers from June to 

 October ; lower lip light or dark violet or 

 lilac, with a hooded, 2-cleft middle lobe ; 

 upper lip pale lilac, the middle lobe being 

 more or less yellowish and spotted with 

 purple, or violet. 



This is the hardiest of all the Fringe 

 Flowers, and numerous forms of it have 

 been produced, such as atropurpureus, 

 ■deep purple with a dark centre ; candi- 

 dissimus, a pure white variety ; roseus, 

 Sb charming variety having rosy ilowers 

 spotted with red. There is also a com- 

 pact rose-coloured form and one called 

 Tom Thumb scarcely a foot high, which 

 ^re said to come true from seeds. Papi- 

 Uonaceus has violet flowers with deeper 

 shades and stripes, and a spot of creamy 

 yellow at the base of the middle lobe of 

 the lower lip. Priesti is a very old white- 

 flowered form. A packet of mixed seeds 

 will give most of these varieties and many 

 other variations. 



Culture and Propagation. — S. pin- 

 natus and its varieties being hardy are 

 as a rule easily raised from seeds sown 

 in the open border in March and April. 

 They are also valuable for early spring 

 flowering in greenhouses, for which pur- 

 pose they must be raised from seeds sown 

 in August and September. 



S. retusus. — This is considered to be 

 a variety of S. Grahami, and is distin- 

 guished by its less out leaves and much 

 larger flowers of a deep rose colour, the 

 middle lobe of the upper lip being 

 blotched with yellow near the apex. 

 There is a pure white form. 



Culture Sc. as above. They may both 

 be raised from seeds sown in heat in 

 February or March and planted out at 

 the end of May. 



SALPIGLOSSIS (Trumpet 

 Tongue). — A small genus of 2 or 3 

 closely related species of annual, biennial, 

 or perennial, clammy downy herbs, with 

 entire, sinuate-toothed or pinnately cut 

 leaves. Flowers few, rather long-stalked, 

 often rather large and handsome. Calyx 

 tubular, 5-cleft. Corolla obliquely funnel- 

 shaped, with a broadly bell-shaped throat ; 

 lobes 5, plaited, emarginate, erect-spread- 

 ing. Perfect stamens 4, didynamous 

 (2 long, 2 short), not protruding. Disc 

 fleshy, somewhat 2-lobed. Ovary sessile, 

 2-oelled ; style thread-like, with a dilated 

 disc - like or broadly 2 - lobed stigma. 



Capsule oblong or ovoid with numerous 

 minute seeds. 



S. linearis (Petunia intermedia). — 

 This species is occasionally seen. It is a 

 native of Argentina and has linear oblong 

 entire and purple flowers, the edges of 

 which are paler in colour, while the tube 

 is striped with yellow. There is a finer 

 form called grandiflora. 



Culture and Propagation. — This is 

 not quite hardy in the colder parts of the 

 kingdom. It is a perennial and grows in 

 ordinary good and well-drained garden 

 soil in warm situations. It may be in- 

 creased by division in spring, or by seeds 

 sown in gentle heat in the same way as 

 recommended for the annual varieties. 



S. sinuata. — This charming ChiHan 

 annual has been known at various times 

 under the names of atropurpurea, aurea, 

 barclayana, coccinea, flava, picta, 

 straminea, and variabilis, aU of which 

 are really forms of the same species. It 

 grows about 2 ft. high, the lower leaves 

 being stalked, eUiptic oblong, sinuate- 

 toothed or pirmately cut ; the upper ones 

 more entire. Flowers during the summer 

 months in great profusion, 2-3 in. across, 

 variously coloured and veined, and 

 remarkably beautiful. The names given 

 above as synonyms indicate slightly the 

 variety of the colour, but orange, sahnon, 

 cerise, violet, purple, crimson, and all 

 intermediate shades are represented. 



Culture and Propagation. — Perhaps 

 there is no other annual which excites 

 such admiration as the Salpiglossis, and it 

 is a flower that should be seen in every 

 garden. It is easily raised from seeds 

 sown in heat in February and March, and 

 planted out at the end of May or beginning 

 of June. They do not much lie transplant- 

 ing, and this operation therefore should 

 be done carefully with as little injury to 

 the roots as possible. Or seeds may be 

 sown in the open ground m April and 

 May in warm open situations in good rich 

 soil where they are to blossom. The 

 seeds being minute should scarcely be 

 covered with a sprinkling of fine sandy 

 soil, and gently watered with a fine-rosed 

 water-pot. The seedlings may be thinned 

 out 6-8 in. apart. When grown in beds 

 by themselves they present a truly charm- 

 ing sight when in bloom, so rich and 

 variable are the colours. 



BROWALLIA. — A genus containing 

 about 6 species of smooth or downy viscid 



