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foliage and used in combination with other fine-leaved plants 
for sub-tropical bedding. These are N. colossea, a species 
growing 5ft. high, and with leaves measuring 2ft. long and 
ift. wide, the young ones being prettily tinted with red ; N. 
macrophylla gigantea, growing 6ft. high and with large broad 
leaves ; and N. wigandioides, a noble plant growing 8ft. high. 
The species grown for their flowers are N. affinis, bearing 
pure white, tubular flowers, which are very fragrant in the 
evening ; a very popular plant in large and small gardens, and 
the roots of which often survive the winter and put forth new 
growth in spring. N. sylvestris is another pretty species with 
large leaves and pure white, long tubular and sweet-scented 
flowers ; a very interesting plant. Then, the most beautiful 
of all the flowering Tobaccos, is N. Sanderse, a hybrid between 
N. affinis and "N. Forgetiana. This plant grows 2ft. or so 
high and bears bright carmine-red flowers in profusion. Still 
more beautiful are the latest Sanderae hybrids, which bear as 
many as eight distinct shades of colour — pink, red, crimson, 
carmine, etc., and constitute a really charming race of showy 
plants for massing in beds or borders. All the kinds mentioned 
require to be raised from seed in heat in February or March, 
the seedlings grown on under glass till May, then hardened 
off and planted out early in June in good rich soil in sunny 
positions. They love a rich soil. 
Origanum (Dittany; Hop Plant). — O. Dictamnus, a 
native of Crete and a member of the Lavender order (Labiatae), 
is a tender perennial only suitable for outdoor culture in the 
South of England and in Ireland. It grows about a foot high 
and bears purplish flowers in hop-like heads in summer. 
Requires to be grown in light sandy loam on a sunny sheltered 
rockery. Plant in spring. Increased by cuttings of the young 
shoots in heat in spring, also by division of the roots in 
March. 
Pelargonium (Stork’s Bill). — This is the correct generic 
name of the so-called “ Geranium,” so extensively grown in 
greenhouses and for summer bedding. The true Geraniums 
are dealt with elsewhere. The “Zonal Geranium,” “ Ivy-leaved 
Geraniums,” and “Oak-leaved Geraniums,” are all members of 
this genus. The Pelargonium, however, belongs to the same 
Nat. Ord. as the Geranium proper, the Geraniaceae. It may 
be interesting to add here that the “ Zonal Geranium,” including 
the Silver, Tricolor and Bronze-leaved types, have been derived 
from a cross between P. zonale and P. inquinans, two African 
species, while the “ Ivy-leaved Geranium ” is derived from an 
African species called P. peltatum. The cut-leaved or scented- 
leaved kinds owe their parentage to P. quercifolium, the 
