The Best Garden Nigella 
conveniently treated as a half-hardy annual. 
The best kind, 4 feet high, with handsome white 
bloom fully developed at dusk and very sweet- 
scented. If cut in the evening when the bloom 
is open it remains expanded in water in the house 
and gives off its good evening scent. The whole 
plant has a different and coarser smell in the 
daytime. The taller N. sylvestris is a fine plant 
for a large space. The Sander ce hybrids are 
useful for conservatory decoration, but N. 
affinis is the best garden plant. In warm and 
sheltered places it often retains its true perennial 
character. N. tabacum is the common Tobacco 
plant, a rather coarse but handsome thing, 6 
feet high, with pink flowers, useful for filling 
rather large, empty spaces. 
Nigella damascena ( Love-in-a-Mist ) ; h.a. ; 
18 inches. — The variety Miss Jekyll is the result 
of many years’ careful selection, and may be said 
to be the best garden Nigella. The colour is a 
pure, soft blue of a quality distinctively its own. 
As it does not remain very long in bloom it 
should be sown in September, in March, and again 
in May. 
(Enothera biennis ( Evening Primrose) ; 
biennial. — The variety Lamarckiana is a very 
handsome, tall plant, 5 to 6 feet high, with a 
quantity of large, lemon -yellow bloom, only 
fully open in the evening or in dull, cloudy 
weather, ffi. taraxacifolia, also a biennial, has a 
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