42 perennials. [March. 
the first of May. Plant them in light, rich soil, and they 
will flower profusely through the season; if it is very dry, 
they must be watered to keep them growing. The scarlet, 
white, and purple varieties are the finest; hut there are 
many intermediate sorts, all handsome. M. glabra is the 
Wall-flower leaved stock, and recmires the same treatment 
as the former two. There are about twenty varieties of this, 
all various in colour. In planting any of these into the open 
ground, choose cloudy weather, except they have been in pots; 
in such case, plant at any time in beds, or detached groups, 
through the borders, keeping each kind separate. 
(Enotheras. The most of them are indigenous, and in 
Europe they afford a continual ornament to the flower-garden 
from April to November; but in our gardens they are entirely 
neglected. By rejecting these and many others, our flower- 
gardens are deprived both of much beauty and interest they 
might easily possess. The herbaceous sorts delight in light, 
rich soil. (E. odorata, sweet-scented ; (E. macrocdrpa ; (E. 
media; (E. lati flora ; (E. Frazeri ; (E.specibsa;GE.misson- 
riensis, and (E. pallida ; are all fine, native, herbaceous 
plants, mostly with large yellow, four-petaled corollas; in 
bloom from May to September. 
Phlox, another American genus, and one of the most 
handsome in cultivation. It consists of elegant border flow- 
ers, valuable for flowering early, and during the whole sea 
son, even till frost. While the majority of plants blooming 
late in the season are generally syngenesious, with yellow 
flowers, these delight us with their lively colours of purple, 
red, white, and striped. A collection of them, properly 
attended to, would of themselves constitute a beautiful flower- 
garden. It will be difficult to state which are the finest ; but 
the following are select varieties : P. alba kertnosine, white 
rose-eye; blanc de Neuilly, pure white; captivatiorij dark 
rose; Charles, blush; dicarirata, blue; loinjijiora, white; 
odordta, fragrant red; pi'ostrdta, creeping; Princess Mari- 
anne, striped; specibsa, dark crimson; speciosissima, rosy 
lilac; subidata, dwarf pink; Van llouttii, striped. In the 
spring of 1831, an eminent British collector* exclaimed, on 
seeing a patch of P. subulata in one of the pine barrens of 
New Jersey, "The beauty of that alone is worth coming to 
* Mr. Drummond. 
