318 LISTS OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX, 



downy covering before lowing, as a means of forward- 

 ing, the germination. 



Balfa??i,_ when double, and well marked, is a very 

 'fine flower. The plain coloured red and white, femi- 

 doubie and tingle ones, are not of much account with 

 the curious, but may be put out in ordinary borders to 

 make a ihew. The feed of this flow r er fhould be nicely 

 faved from the fulleft'biciTomed, and diftinfdy ftrlped 

 forts, that have not grown near, fmall, or felf-coloured 

 ones. The plants feiefted for feed, fhould he protected 

 from the wet and cold, after Mid-Angujl, by putting, 

 them under lights, or in a green-houfe window, where 

 they may have the full fun. 



Calceolaria, the flower of, is efleemed only for the 

 curfofjty of its flipper fhape. The blow may be con- 

 tinued all fummer, by planting cuttings. 



Capjieums are ufualiy ranked in the lefs tender clafs, 

 and though they are in nature fb, yet to have them fine, 

 and to fruit in time, they fhould be brought forward, 

 by being treated as balfams, &c, at leafl in fituations 

 far north of London. They are grown for the beauty 

 and ufe of their pods, which are varioufly fhaped, as 

 long, heart, cherry, &c. See p. 248. 



Cieome is a very tender annual, (has been long con- 

 fidered as a Jlove plant) but may cojjie under the cul- 

 tivation of the ordinary fiorifl, by continuing it. longer 

 in a frame, as fuppofe to Mid- July, or later, if the lea- 

 fon is then unkind ; and then plunging the pots in a 

 warm border. When autumn approaches, a hand-glafs 

 may be fet on forked flicks over this, or any tender 

 plant, and thus preferve it longer. 



Colutea is a perennial fhrub of fomewhat tender na- 

 ture, that hardly fucceeds abroad. Though the feed 

 will . come up on cold ground in high fpring, yet by 

 fowing it as one of this clafs, it may be "brought for- 

 ward enough to- produce its beautiful flowers the fame 

 autumn. See lijis "IV. and X. In this laft lift it is 

 confidered as a biennial as it may be houfed the fir ft 



winter, 



