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The little creeping species, as the L. decumbens, 
and its varieties, are usually sown as annual flowers, 
and grow well in moist soil in an open situation, pro¬ 
ducing its intense blue flowers in summer; but as 
they are perennial, they grow well in pots placed on 
a shelf in the Greenhouse, where the vines trail over 
the sides of the pots; and if kept moist, they flower 
nearly all the summer. They are easily propagated, 
by dividing them at the roots, or by cuttings aud seeds. 
The L. inflata, (or Indian tobacco,) is sometimes used 
as a medicine, but as it possesses no beauty, it is not 
cultivated in gardens. 
MATHIOLA, (or stock gilliflower.) 
To procure fine double stock Gilliflowers, as the 
Brompton, Queen, and Ten-week stocks, make choice 
of such single flowering plants as grow near double 
ones, for it has been observed that seed saved from 
plants growing among double ones has produced a 
much greater number of double flowering plants than 
that derived from plants remote from the double ones. 
Sow the seed in May, and when the plants have grown 
two or three inches high, thin them out about a foo^ 
apart, to allow them room to perfect their growth by 
Autumn. The plants so taken out may be put in any 
convenient place in the flower border, and should be 
taken up by the end of September and potted in any 
