200 S:UTOCA WRANGELIANA. 
stakes, and if the stems are tastefully disposed at an early stage of their growth, these 
stakes will be entirely concealed, and an almost unbroken surface of beautiful blue 
blossoms will be exhibited. It is scarcely necessary to recommend the practice of 
growing delicate and showy annuals in the greenhouse during the dull season of 
the year, as every cultivator must be aware of its advantages. 
Seeds sown very late in the autumn of one season, the plants being potted into 
small pots, three in each pot, and kept through the winter in a frame or green- 
house where they can be placed close to the glass, re-potting them into larger pots 
if requisite, will produce flowers early in the spring of the following year, and 
prove valuable and interesting ornaments to the greenhouse. Again, if these 
plants are allowed to perfect their seed, and some of this is sown in August or 
September, or even later, and treated in a similar manner to that above narrated, 
they will flower during the whole of the last months of the year, and probably 
much longer if properly managed. 
Any light and open loamy soil will be found suitable for this plant, though 
those which are grown during the summer will require one stronger and more 
retentive. Water should be applied to them very cautiously in the winter, and the 
atmosphere of the house or frame kept as free from damp or vapour as possible ; 
but if they are retained in pots through the summer, a larger supply of it will be 
necessary. 
This species was first discovered in the Kussian colony of Ross in New 
California, which is situated on the north-west coast of North America ; and seeds 
of it were comnmnicated to the Imperial Botanic Garden at Petersburgh, from 
w^hence it was received in this country, we believe, by the Horticultural Society. 
It was named by Fischer and Meyer after Baron Wrangel, a Swedish nobleman 
of distinction, who has been employed in the Russian service in exploring the 
districts round Behring's Straits. 
We are indebted to Messrs. Henderson, of the Edgeware Road, for the oppor- 
tunity of figuring this showy species, in whose nursery our drawing was taken in 
the month of May last, and from whom plants or seeds may be obtained. 
The generic name is taken from eutokos^ fruitful, and was applied to the genus 
by Mr. R. Brown, on account of the number of seeds borne by the placentcs ; a 
character by which it is distinguished from Nemophila. 
