204 SUBTROPICAL PLANTS FOR THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Parisian gardens. But in selecting examples from this great 

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

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

 of too ragged an aspect to be tolerated in a tasteful 

 garden. Half a dozen species or so are indispensable^ 

 but quite a crowd of narrovv^-leaved and ignoble ones may 

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



Fig. 73. 



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 



