PARK AND CEMETERY. 
where they do well planted out during the summer, 
and flower in the early spring in cool greenhouses. 
From the Garolinas southward, and in California, 
they form handsome shrubs of eight to ten or more 
feet high, with short panicles of very fragrant 
creamy white flowers. Californian gardens I be- 
lieve boast two or three other species such as P. 
Eugenioides and its variegated form, P. revolutum, 
and P. undulatum, with its flowers still more fra- 
grant than Tobira, rivalling the orange blossom in 
fact. Most of the species are good shrubs, with 
flowers ranging in color from white to yellowish, to 
brown, green, purple, or blueish purple. 
Polygala has 260 species scattered all over the 
earth, except perhaps the extreme arctic regions. 
There are several beautiful shrubs in greenhouses 
with papilionaceous flowers, which differ material- 
ly from pea flowers however. The calyx is said to 
consist of five sepals, but two of these are colored 
like the corolla, then, two of the petals are erect, 
while the remaining three form a keel, within which 
the stamens are partially hidden with their fila- 
ments grown together. Then the anthers are one 
celled, and the seed vessel is a two celled capsule, 
while the seeds have a white protuberance at one 
end, all of which differs from the pea tribes. There 
is but one of the half shrubby kinds likely to en- 
dure at the upper south, P. chama^buxus, a native 
of Austria and Switzerland, has creamy yellow fra- 
grant flowers and is hardy in the south of England. 
Our native “gay wings,” P. paucifolia, and its white 
variety, are handsome, and catalogued by two or 
three collectors and nurserymen. P. aurea, P. san- 
guinea, P. senega or “snake root,’’ and the Brit- 
ish P. vLilgare with its humble purplish blue, rose, 
or rarely w'hitc flowers, may be growm b)' the cu- 
rious. 
With the exception of these two genera, the 
plants of the group are but little known in our gar- 
dens, although in California no doubt, several of 
the Australian and Cape species are grown. These 
plants from the southern hemisphere often flower 
earlier wuth us than in England, as they mature 
and ripen their wood earlier and better, and such 
species as are used for summer blooming are best 
kept quite cool in winter, for sometimes a little 
encouragement will induce pre^iature bloom. The 
following species are mostly to be had in commerce 
either as plants or seeds, and are the most likely 
summer bloomers. Of the South African Polyga- 
las such as P. pinifolia, P. virgata, P. bracteolata, 
P. lanceolata, and P. peduncularis. Then Bursa- 
ria spinosa;Marianthus ringens; Citriobatus multiflo- 
rus, the “orange thorn” of the Australians; are all 
neat plants. Among small blue flow’ered climbers 
are Pronaya elegans; Sollya Drummondi, and the 
“bhie bell climber” Sollya heterophylla; Cheiran- 
thera linearis is late flowering in England, but 
plants from the southern Hemisphere, as previous- 
ly hinted, behave very differently in various coun- 
tries. Billardiera augustifolia, B. longiflora, B. 
scandens, and B. mutabilis, are climbers of varying 
size, and with flowers varying in color from creamy 
white to purple and blue. Tetratheca ericrefolia, T. 
rubioides, and T. glandulosa are handsome little 
shrubs which were better knowm in collections years 
ago than now. Platytheca gallioides is a handsome 
blueish purple flowered plant of the same affinity, 
but these all show a disposition to flow^er early un- 
less they are kept cool in winter and spring. Seeds 
of such Australasian plants vegetate readily if sown 
in a flat in a working vinery, or house of similar 
temperature, merely using the ordinary care to keep 
the soil gently moistened by light, frequent water- 
ings. Muraltia, Mundtia, Comesperma, Monnina, 
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Seed magnilied. Flower inagnilied. 
