The sea-like Plata, — to whose dread expanse. 
Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, 
Our floods are rills. With unabated force. 
In silent dignity they sweep along, 
And traverse realms unknown, and blooming wilds, 
And fruitful deserts, worlds of solitude, 
Where the sun shines, and seasons teem in vain, 
Unseen, and unenjoy’d.” Thompson. 
Cultivated as a hardy annual, the Petunia nycta- 
giniflora is a valuable acquisition to the flower gar- 
den ; and as a perennial also, we are sure that very 
many of our readers will highly prize it. The 
abundance of flowers which it produces in the second 
and third years of its growth, over the entire surface 
of a plant six or eight feet high, when trained to a 
wall, will amply repay the trouble required in the 
protection of this luxuriant herbaceous American. 
Seeds may be sown in the open ground in April; 
or more advantageously on a hotbed, a month 
earlier, as the plants will come into flower propor- 
tionably sooner. If trained against a wall, they will 
attain a height of from two to three feet in the first 
summer. A good covering of stable litter or straw 
should be applied over the roots, during winter, and 
a double matting over the plant, in frosty weather, 
will preserve it. We have exposed it, in a pot, to 
rather severe frosts, and though the leaves were 
destroyed, the stems were but little injured. 
If a plant or two be kept in pots, and preserved, 
during winter, in the house, cuttings of it may be 
struck on a hotbed, in the spring, which will pro- 
duce a gay display of flowers much earlier than if 
raised from seeds. 
Bot. Mag. 2552. 
