204 SUBTROPICAL PLANTS FOR THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Parisian gardens. But in selecting examples from this great 

 genus we must be much more careful, as our climate is 

 a shade too cold for them, and many of them are 

 of too ragged an aspect to he tolerated in a tasteful 

 garden. Half a dozen species or so are indispensable, 

 but quite a crowd of narrow-leaved and ignoble ones may 

 well be dispensed with. The better kinds — as seen both in 



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Solanum robustum. 



London and Paris gardens — are marginatum, robustum, 

 macranthum, macrophyllum, Warscewiczii, crinipes, calli- 

 carpum, jubatum, Quitoense, galianthum, hippoleucum, 

 crinitum, and Fontainesianum, an annual with pretty 

 leaves, crisped and distinct looking. 



Most of these plants may be raised from seed, while they 

 are also freely grown from cuttings. As a rule hothouse 



