BARTON I A, Nat. Ord. Loasacece. 
Bartonia aurea is a very showy, half-hardy annual. It is a native of California, and was 
found there nearly forty years ago by the unfortunate Douglas, who discovered so many 
ornamental annuals in California and South America, which he 
introduced to European florists, and who finally sacrificed his life to 
his botanical zeal by falling into a pit placed 
to entrap wild cattle, on the Sandwich Is- 
lands, while on a botanical excursion. The 
leaves are somewhat thistle-like in appear- 
ance, gray and downy. The flowers are 
double the size shown in the engraving, of a 
very bright, metallic yellow, and exceed- 
ingly brilliant in the sunshine. It likes 
considerable moisture, and in a drouth the 
young plants sometimes suffer. We saw it flowering beautifully, in June, on the mountain sides 
in the neighborhood of the Yosemite Valley, but not in large quantities. As it does not bear trans- 
planting very well, we sow seed in the garden early, and in that way get good plants and flowers. 
BRACHYGOME, Nat. Ord. Composite. 
The Brachycome iberidifolia is a daisy-like flower, found on the banks of the Swan River, in 
Australia, and sometimes called Swan River Daisy. It is an elegant little plant, growing only 
about eight inches in height, of a branching, compact habit, 
with deeply cut foliage and abundance of flowers, of the size 
and appearance of which our engraving will give a good idea, 
and bearing more resemblance to the Cin- 
eraria, perhaps, than any other flower. 
Colors blue and white, with a dark eye. 
For a bed or mass, set the plants six or 
eight inches apart. Neither this simple 
description nor the engraving will give 
the reader a sufficiently favorable idea of 
the pretty, daisy-like flowers, and the 
compact, rounded form of this beautiful plant, which is deserving of far more attention than it 
has ever received. 
BROWALLIA, Nat. Ord. Scrophulariacece. 
The Browallias are excellent, free flowering, half-hardy annuals, mostly from South America. 
The flowers are beautiful and delicate, the engraving showing the natural size. Seeds grow quite 
freely and the plant gives abundance of bloom. Plants about eighteen 
inches in height, and shovild be set a foot apart. This, though not a 
showy, is a very interesting class of flowers ; in fact, they belong, like the 
Clarkia, the Nemophila, and Whitlavia, to a modest, 
and therefore unappreciated, family, which we like much 
better than we usually say, because they are not showy 
enough to please everybody, and we do not like to be 
the cause of disappointment, even to unreasonable 
people. For several years past, however, the taste for 
the culture of the more delicate flowers has been rapidly 
improving, and instead of being scolded for over-praising 
some little favorite, it will be recollected, many readers 
have complained because we said so little when so much 
With this progress we are well pleased. 
could be spoken with trulh. 
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