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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



and July, in succession, and they will be good flowering 

 plants for autumn and winter in the greenhouse, where their 

 gay flowers and sweet scent will reward the cultivator; 

 these cuttings should be planted in light sandy soil, plunged 

 in a cucumber or melon frame, and shaded from the sun ; 

 they should be watered and carefully attended to when 

 necessary, and when struck should be repotted, after being 

 a little hardened. H. corymbosum is also worth growing. 



TOUENEFORTIA. 



Gen. Char. {Pentandria Monogynia.) Corolla salver-shaped or 

 rotate, naked at the orifice ; berry two-celled ; cells two-seeded, 

 perforated at the end. 



Named after Tournefort, a botanist. T. fieliotrqpioides, sl 

 South American plant, is very like the Heliotrope, and has 

 also pretty pale purple flowers ; it will bear planting out, 

 but requires the greenhouse or frame in the winter ; fruti- 

 cosa has white flowers, and is a shrubby plant from the Ca- 

 naries, as well as angustifolia> with pale blue ; velutina and 

 umhellata, both with white flowers, are natives of Mexico. 

 T. heliotropioides is quite worthy of a place in the green- 

 house or garden, as it flowers in profusion from May to 



