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LIST OF FLOWERS. 



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have forward plants. It is very much like the former^ not so 

 rampant^ and has a purple spot in the inside of the flower. In 

 all else, hkes the same treatment as the former. 



537. NETTLE, the red dead. — Lat. Galeopsis ladanum. An 

 annual plant common in Europe, which grows one foot high, and 

 blows a pretty pink flower from July to October. Propagated 

 by sowing the seed in any soil. A very handsome plant. 



538. CENOTHERA,^re«^/ozi7ere6?.— Lat. ffi;.^r«?Z(ii/?ora. A 

 biennial plant originally from Virginia. It is generally three or 

 four feet high, and blows in July, August, and September, a beau- 

 tifrd yellow flower. Any soil suits it, but it likes a moist one and a 

 sunny situation. Propagated by sowing the seed in a bed, but it 



also sows itself. CE. evening-primrose. — Lat. (E. biennis. From 



North America 5 biennial ; blows a fine yellow flower from July 

 to September. Likes a good garden mould, but is not very nice 

 as to soil ; and it should be sown in the spring in the place where 



it is to blow the following year. CE. 'purple. — Lat. (E. purpurea. 



An American annual, growing eighteen inches or two feet high, 

 and blowing, from June to August, abundance of purple flowers at 

 the end of its numerous stalks. Sow in the open ground early 

 in spring, in the place where it is to blow.— — CE. yellow. — 

 Lat. (E. serotina. A hardy biennial plant, growing two feet 

 high, and in July and August blowing a handsome yellow flower. 

 CE. white. — Lat. CE. speciosa. Grows two feet high, is bien- 

 nial, and blows a white flower 5 in other things resembling the 



two forementioned plants. CE. large-leaved. — Lat. (E. macro- 



carpa. A hardy, traihng, perennial sort of CEnothera, which 

 blows in July and August enormous yellow flowers of four petals, 

 and one of the flowers of which I have found to measure four 

 inches across. CE. sweet. — Lat. CE. odorata. Grows two or 

 three feet high, is perennial, and in July and August blows a yel- 

 low sweet-smelling flower, rather smaller than that of the grandi- 



flora. CE. Lindleys. An annual plant, blowing in July and 



August a purple-striped flower. Grows from one foot to eighteen 

 inches high, and the stalk and leaves are tinged deeply with a purple 

 hue. This variety should be so^^ti in the open ground with the 

 spring-souTi flowers. The others are propagated either by part- 

 ing the roots in the autumn or by seed raised in a gentle hot-bed. 

 All of them are handsome and ornamental flowers, and I think 

 the macrocarpa one of the handsomest of border flowers ; but, as 



