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count of its height not suiting a border), it is not cultivated in it, 

 but is generally amongst the front rows of the shrubbery. The 

 I soil that it likes best is a moist one, but it does not refuse a pretty 

 1 dry one. There is a w^hite variety ; both propagated by dividing 

 the roots in the fall. 



WOOD-SORR^h, violet-coloured. — Lat. Oxalis violacea. A 

 perennial bulb originally from North America, and blows a violet- 

 coloured flow er in May and June. It grows three or four inches 

 high, hkes a light soil, and is propagated by parting the offsets, 

 or by seed, which should be managed like the tulip, only that it 

 requires less pains. 



WORM-GRASS, Maryland. — Lat. Spigelia Marilandica. A 

 handsome crimson flower blowing in June and July. Native of 

 ^Maryland. It is difficult to propagate, which must be done by 

 j parting its roots ; and though sufficiently hardy to bear an ordinary 

 ! winter, it is difficult to keep. It grows a foot high. 



XERANTHEMUM, annual or immortal herh. — Lat. X, an- 

 nuum. A plant from the south of Europe. About a foot high, 

 I and blows, in July and August, a purplish flower. Propagate from 

 seed sowed in the open ground where it is to grow. When it is 

 in a warm situation it propagates itself. 



ZINNIA. — Lat. Z. multiflora. An annual plant originally from 

 j North America. Sends up many flower stalks about a foot and a 

 ' half high, and, at the end of each, bears a brownish red flower, in 

 the months of July, August, and September. Propagated by sow- 

 ing the seed in April where the plants are to blow, or in Februaiy 

 in a hot-bed, to be planted out in April ; not particular as to soil 

 or situation ; will do well in rock-work, and makes a pretty show 

 in the border. 



ZIZIPHORA, oval-leaved, — Lat. Z. capitatum. A hardy an- 

 nual plant from Syria, about six inches high, and blows a purplish 

 flower in June and July. — Z. spear-leaved. — Lat. Z. teauior. 

 A hardy annual plant from the Levant, about a foot high, and 

 blows in June and July. Both are propagated by seed sown in 

 the autumn or in the spring w here they are to remain. 



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