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large, of a pale blue, and sweet; the plant is too tender for the 
open air, and should be confined to pot or frame culture. 
Tim double white Neapolitan is an exquisite variety for purity 
of colour and fragrance, but the plant is even more difficult to 
manage than the blue one. 
The old double blue is a very hardy plant, thriving in the open 
air, and displaying its flowers sparingly through the winter, un¬ 
less in a very warm position, but most abundantly in spring ; it 
is too rampant for pot-culture, but should have a place in all 
shaded flower beds. 
The single blue perpetual is a most useful kind, vdiich planted 
at the foot of a south wall, in tolerably rich and well-drained 
soil, will continue to flower through the whole year; it may also 
be potted, and if placed in a cold frame will not fail to yield a 
good supply of flowers even in the worst weather. It is also 
very fragrant. 
The common blue and white are too well known as border 
flowers and inhabitants of our hedges and woodsides to need de¬ 
scription ; I will only remark, the white have less scent than the 
more common blue, but both may be potted, and will flower 
tolerably free through the winter, either in the greenhouse, a 
frame, or the sitting-room window. 
Their culture should begin in April, when there will be found 
numerous side shoots, which taken and treated as cuttings in a 
close frame, root and form independent plants in two or three 
weeks. If a frame cannot be spared for striking them in, the 
old plants may be transferred to a shaded part of the garden, 
and being plunged into the earth, the side branches may be laid, 
fastening them with pegs, and just covering the thinner portion 
of the stem with mould, they will speedily emit roots, and in 
June may be transplanted to a bed of light rich earth, to remain 
till autumn. Those struck as previously described also require 
this bedding; the position chosen should be one open to the 
morning and evening sun, but sheltered from its greatest influence 
at midday ; the soil should be something like that taken from 
the top of an old melon bed, with a third of sharp sand added; 
and here, with attention to watering in dry weather, they will 
grow rapidly, forming strong plants by the middle of September, 
when they may be taken up and potted or planted into a frame, 
