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THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN 
said to s : gnify oil-producing. When cultivated for oil in Europe, the seedlings are transplanted as soon as they 
unfold their second pair of leaves, into very rich soil, where they are planted ten inches or a foot apart. When 
the seeds begin to ripen, which is known by their turning black, the plants are reaped like corn, and set up 
to dry. They should, however, be thrashed out as soon as possible, as the succulent steins of the plants, if 
suffered to lie long, will begin to ferment, and would soon spoil the seeds. One acre of land in Germany sown with 
Madia will produce about 442 pounds of oil; while one acre sown with poppies, will produce only 264 pounds of 
oil, and the same quantity of land sown with rape only 240 pounds. The produce in England, however, is 
probably much less, on account of the comparative coldness of our summers. 
GENUS XIX. 
MADARIA, Dec. THE MADARIA. 
Lin. Si/st. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Character. —Flowers of the ray ligulate, female; those 
of the disk tubular, male, or sterile. Involucrum nearly globose, 
torulose, of one series of scales. Scales complicate, involving the 
achenia of the ray. Receptacle rather convex, bearing one or two 
series of scales between the ray and the disk, fringed or hairy in the 
centre. Achenia of the ray compressed, 4 or 5-angled, glabrous; those 
of the disk abortive. 
Description, &c.— The plants composing this genus were, till lately, considered to belong to Madia, but 
they have been separated from that genus principally on account of the florets of the disk producing no achenia or 
fruit, and, consequently, no seeds. The name Madaria, is from madoros, bald ; in allusion to the fruit being- 
devoid of pappus. 
l.—MADARIA ELEGANS, Dec. THE ELEGANT MADARIA. 
Synonyme. —Madia elegans, Don. ? Madia splendens, Hort. Specific Character. —Plant covered with glandular clammy hairs, 
Engravings. —Bot. Reg. t. 1458; Bot. Mag. t. 3548; and our mixed with glandless bristles. 
fig. 3, in Plate 32. 
Description, &c. —A very strong and coarse-growing plant, from two to three feet high, with large woolly 
leaves. The flowers are produced in great abundance, and are very showy, the disk being surrounded by a 
distinctly-marked ring of brownish red. The plant is a native of California, whence it was sent home by Douglas 
in 1830. It will not bear either very hot weather or very rich soil, and Dr. Lindley, in the Bot. Reg., 
recommends it to be sown about June, so as not to come into flower till the heat of summer is passed. The 
reason for this, the doctor adds, is “ that its flowers are so impatient of exposure to light, that they are scarcely 
expanded in bright sunshine, before they contract again, and the rays curl inwards, hiding the bright yellow’ 
and brown on which their beauty entirely depends.” We sowed it at Bays water in April, and as our little 
garden is full of large trees, it did not appear to suffer from the heat, but blossomed splendidly. The only 
objection we had to it was its large size and excessively vigorous growth, which occasioned the destruction of all 
the finer and more delicate plants near it. It does not require either staking or thinning, as the thick strong 
stalks of the more vigorous plants will not only stand alone, but will overpower and destroy the weaker ones near 
them. The specimen figured in our plate was not a good one, as in general the ring of brownish-red is 
quite as conspicuous as in Sphenogyne speciosa, figured in Plate 31. 
