ESCHSCHOLT'ZIA CALIFOR^NICA. 
CALIFORNIAN ESCHSCH O LTZ I A. 
Class. Order. 
POLVANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PAPAVBRACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
California. 
1 foot. 
July, Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 298. 
Eschscholtzi.i after Dr. Eschscholtz, the Physician 
of Captain Kotzebue’s expedition. Californica, from 
California, a peninsula of the western coast of North 
America, where this plant was discovered by the 
London Horticultiu-al Society’s Botanical Collector, 
Mr. David Douglas. 
The beautifully rich yellow colour of these flowers, 
which so nicely harmonizes with the delicate foliage 
of the plant, at once recommends it to favour. Though 
of perennial continuance, in the warmth of its native 
country, it must here, in the open garden, be culti- 
vated as an annual. 
Seed should be sown in a botbed in March, and 
as these plants, like most others of the natural order 
to which they belong, are impatient of removal, 
when they are an inch high they should be carefully 
transplanted into small pots separately. In this state; 
they may remain in the hotbed, a forbiight or longer, 
till they are well established ; after which they should 
be turned into tbe borders to flower. In this last 
operation care should be taken that the plant, with 
the whole ball of earth, about its roots, be tiu'ned 
from the pot and deposited in the border unbroken. 
Sweet’s FI. Card. 265. 
