Plate 78 . 
LAMARCK’S EVENING PRIMROSE. 
CEnothera Lamarchiana. 
There are a large number of persons who are hindered, by 
want of means or other circumstances, from falling into the 
now almost universal system of gardening; for where facilities 
cannot be had for wintering Verbenas, bedding Geraniums, and 
other tender plants, now so extensively used, it is, of course, 
simply impossible, without incurring the expense of buying 
plants every spring, to bed out in any extensive way. 
It is amongst this class of persons that annuals and biennials 
find so much favour. They are easy of cultivation, a few pack¬ 
ages of seed are sufficient for a moderate-sized garden, and 
they afford a good deal of variety, not only in the colour of the 
flowers, but in their form, and a judicious selection of sorts will 
enable persons to have them in bloom for the greater portion 
of the year, from the time that Nemophila insignis opens its 
clear blue petals, down to the last Aster that falls a victim to 
the October frost; but we would deprecate the loose and irre¬ 
gular way in which such things are often done: a circle is first 
made, and then enough seed thrown in to sow ten times the 
space; if they were sown more carefully and not so thickly, or 
thinned out afterwards, annuals and biennials would present a 
much more respectable appearance than they often do. 
In our last volume, a variety of CEnothera , called CE. Youngii , 
was figured (Plate 54), but a reference to that will show, com¬ 
pared with the present, how very distinct they are. The one 
now figured was grown by Messrs. Carter and Co., the well- 
known seedsmen of High Holborn, and of the Crystal Palace 
nursery, Forest Hill; and to them we are indebted for the fol¬ 
lowing particulars:— 
“ We received, about four years ago, some seed from Texas 
