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and perenne, 1 to li feet, bright bine in the type, but 
haying pink and white forms. They all like a warm 
sheltered part of the border or rockery, and may be 
raised from seed, division of the roots in spring, or 
by cuttings of the young and moderately-ripe shoots 
in summer. A few annual Flaxes, like grandijiorum, 
with rose-coloured flowers, and usitatissimum, the 
blue-flowered Flax of commerce, are easily raised from 
seeds sown thinly from March to May. 
LITHOSPERMUM. — The kinds mentioned below 
are most generally grown. They flourish in well- 
drained soil, in the rock-garden or flower border, and 
are usually increased by division in spring, from seeds, 
or by cuttings of the young non-flowering shoots in 
summer. Indeed, L. prostratum is more easily in- 
creased by cuttings than from seeds or division. The 
following are worth growing : L. Gastoni, 12 to 
18 inches, bright sky-blue flowers ; L. gra minifolium, 
pale blue ; L. prostratum, a trailing evergreen with 
brilliant blue flowers distinctly veined ; and L. pur- 
pureo-coeruleum, a native plant suitable for creeping 
over rockeries. It flourishes in any soil except clay, 
and its bright blue flowers appear in June and July, 
and in greater profusion if the runners or young 
trailing shoots are pinched back. 
LOBELIA.— The most beautiful plants in this 
genus are undoubtedly those known as cardinalis, 
fulgens, and splendens, all natives of the South United 
States and Mexico. They grow about 3 feet high, 
having oblong lance-shaped leaves slightly toothed on 
the margins, and long erect racemes of beautiful 
velvety scarlet or crimson flowers. Many fine hybrids 
