When once 
their intelligent 
CLARKIA, Nat. Ord. Onagracece. 
in the County of Essex, in England, wandering about in 
cultivators, we neared 
search of flowers and 
village, called St, Osyth, and in its 
old-fashioned village, caiiea J5t, usytn, ana m 
neighborhood we saw immense 
fields ablaze with bright colors, 
acres each of pink, red, white, 
purple, lilac, and which a closer 
view proved to be masses of 
Clarkia, being grown for the 
seed. Wherever a mass of bright 
colors is desired, the Clarkia is 
the most effective annual in the 
hands of the English florist. It 
suffers with us in hot dry weather. Seed sown in autumn will give good early spring flowers. 
COLLIN SI A, Nat. Ord. Scr ophulariacece . 
The Collinsia is a very pretty, free blooming, hardy annual, that we always liked, but never so 
well as since we saw it growing wild in California, and which 
we mistook when at a distance for some new species of Lupin. 
The marbled, or many-colored, 
flowers are in whorls of five or six 
blossoms, and three or more of these 
whorls on each flower stem. The 
upper lip of the flower is white or 
pale lilac, and the lower one dark 
purple. About eighteen inches in 
height. We have had very good suc- 
cess with fall planted seeds in a dry soil, but would hardly like to advise this plan generally. 
CONVOLVULUS, Nat. Ord. Convolvulacea;. 
Every one knows the Convolvulus major, the old and loved Morning Glory, which will be 
found described among the Climbing Plants, but all are not conversant 
with the Dwarf Convolvulus, C. minor. It is a dwarfish plant, of a 
trailing habit, each plant covering a circle per- 
haps two feet in diameter, or more. The 
flowers are about two-thirds the size of those of 
the Morning Glory, and a bed of the Dwarf 
Convolvulus forms beautiful mass; and were 
it not that the flowers are closed during the latter 
part of the day, the same as Convolvulus major, 
fcM' plants would give more satisfaction. The engraving shows the flower one-half natural size. 
GREPIS, Nat. Ord. CompositcB. 
The Crepis are pretty plants that almost every one would like in a large collection, but which 
we would not recommend to those who cultivate but few 
flowers, except once for trial or acquaintance. There is great -^^ik 1 
pleasure in forming a personal acquaintance with strange m^xMlVU 
flowers by culture, just as much 
as in 
strange 
traveling among new scenes in 
lands; at least, so we think. There are 
several varieties of the Crepis, yellow, pur- 
ple, pink and white, all hardy annuals, 
about one foot in height, and bearing deli- 
cate, pretty flowers. The engraving shows 
the full size of the flower. Plants should 
be about eight or ten inches apart. Seed 
will germinate if sown in the open ground, but we generally put a pinch or two in the hot-bed. 
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