MIMULUS, Nat. Ord. ScrophulariacecB. 
The Mimuli, sometimes called Monkey Flowers, are beautiful, tender looking plants. The 
branches are almost trans- 
parent and quite succulent, 
and are easily broken by 
the wind. For baskets 
under the shelter of veran- 
dahs, vases, and for culture 
in the house, not many 
plants will give more satis- 
faction. M. cardinalis does very well in the garden. Flowers of the Mimulus are very brilliant. 
MYOSOTIS, Nat. Ord. Boraginacece. 
Perennial plants, that flower the first season if sown early, bearing small white and blue flowei-s. 
Delight in a rather moist situation. Fine for moist rock-work. All 
the blue varieties are commonly called Forget-me-not. M. pa- 
lustris is the old and popular Forget-me-not. 
The branches cut and placed in water will 
continue to bloom a long time, almost as 
well as if on the plant, and will often make 
roots, and considerable growth. Seed may 
be sown in the hot-bed and transplanted as 
early as possible, or may be sown in the 
open ground in the sprmg, so as to get a good growth before the hot, dry weather of summer. 
NEMOPHILA, Nat. Ord. HydrophyllacecE. 
EMOPHILAS are pretty, delicate, hardy annuals, throwing up 
their slender flower stems a few inches. The leaves are very 
pretty in form, and of a delicate, lively 
green, and, if the plants are grown in 
masses, have a mossy appearance. The 
flowers are mainly blue and white, and of 
the forms shown in the engravings. They 
are native Americans, and yet flourish 
much better in the moist climate of Brit- 
ain than here. Nemophilas were first found 
fifty years since, in shady, moist places 
on the banks of the Missouri River. This fact shows why they will not 
better endure our hot, dr)' summers. No annual is grown with greater 
success in England than the Nemophila, and we hardly think as exten- 
sively. On the high land in Calaveras 
County, California, and in the neighborhood of the big trees, 
we saw acres of Nemophilas, beautifying the waste land, and 
finer than we ever saw them 
in the gardens of Europe or 
America. They do best if 
sown in a frame and trans- 
planted early, as the hot sun 
injures the flowers; but do 
finely all summer, if planted 
in a rather cool, shady place. 
Set about six inches apart. A 
few plants set early among 
spring-flowering bulbs, such 
as Tulips, etc., flower splen- 
didly, and a few seeds scat- 
tered over the beds of bulbs will render a very good accouut of themselves in the early spring, 
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