Plate’ 128. 
MATJYE-COLOTJKED NOLANA. 
Nolana atriplicifolia , var. subccerulea. 
The pretty bell-shaped floAvers, Nolana , are well known to all 
who admire and cultivate the numerous tribe of annuals which 
are so extensively grown, especially in small gardens; and the 
variety which we now figure is a pleasing addition to them, 
wTiich we are, through the kind permission of Messrs. Carter 
and Co., enabled to figure in our present illustration. 
We learn from them that it originated in their seed-farm 
about seven years ago. It being their habit to grow T species of the 
same genera near to one another, it will of course sometimes 
happen that through the means either of bees or moths, or other 
agencies, hybridization takes place ; and when any plant of merit 
appears amongst them it is immediately selected, and then 
grown for some years in order to ascertain if it keeps its cha¬ 
racter permanently, and if it do so, it is then brought forward. 
It was in this manner that the present variety was originated, 
and it will be welcomed as a very delicately-coloured addition 
to this elegant class of annuals. 
There was exhibited at the June show of the Uoval Horti- 
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cultural Society, by Messrs. Veitch and Son, another Nolana , 
called lanceolata , which promises to be a showy plant, having 
the usual trailing habit of the tribe, with large blue flowers, 
and apparently of a vigorous style of growth: it received a 
bronze medal. The one we now figure has the same trailing 
habit, but with pale mauve-coloured flowers, which are pro¬ 
duced in great profusion. 
We remarked in our last number on the very large quantity 
of annuals grown by Messrs. Carter for the purpose of meeting 
the wants of their customers in all quarters of the globe ; in so 
doing, our remarks may have led some to suppose that when we 
