floriculture will always make their own selection, the following will
therefore suffice.--

The SPEEDWELL-LEAVED HEDGE HYSSOP, Gratiola veronicifolia, _Bhoomee,
sooel chumnee_, seldom cultivated, though deserving to be so, has a
small blue flower.

The SIMPLE-STALKED LOBELIA, Lobelia simplex, introduced from the Cape,
yields a pretty blue flower.

The EVENING PRIMROSE, Oenothera mutabilis, a pretty white flower that
blossoms in the evening, its petals becoming pink by morning.

The FLAX-LEAVED PIMPERNEL, Anagallis linifolia, a rare plant, giving a
blue flower in the rains; introduced from Portugal.

The BROWALLIA, of two lauds, both pretty and interesting plants;
originally from South America.

The _Spreading Browallia_, B. demissa is the smallest of these, and
blossoms in single flowers of bright blue, at the beginning of the cold
weather.

The _Upright Browallia_, B. alata, gives bloom in groups, of a bright
blue; there is also a white variety, both growing to the height of
nearly two feet.

The SMALL-FLOWERED TURNSOLE, Heliotropium parviflorum, _B'hoo roodee_,
differs from the rest of this family which are mostly perennials; it
yields groups of white flowers, which are fragrant.

The FLAX-LEAVED CANDYTUFT, Iberis linifolia, with its purple blossoms,
is very rare, but it has been sometimes grown with, success.

The STOCK, Mathiola, is a very popular plant, and deserves more
extensive cultivation in this country.

The _Great Sea Stock_, M sinuata, is rare and somewhat difficult to
bring into bloom, it possesses some fragrance and its violet colored
groups of flowers have rather a handsome appearance about May.

The _Ten weeks' Stock_, M annua, is also a pleasing flower about the
same time. In England this is an annual, but here it is not found to
bloom freely until the second year, its color is scarlet, and it has
some fragrance.

The _Purple Gilly flower_, M incana, is a pretty flower of purple color,
and fragrant. There are some varieties of it such as the _Double_,
multiplex, the _Brompton_, coccinea, and the _White_, alba, varying in
color and blossoming in April.

The STARWORT, Aster, is a hardy flowering plant not very attractive,
except as it yields blossoms at all seasons, if the foot stalks are cut
off as soon as the flower has faded, there are very numerous varieties
of this plant which is, in Europe a perennial, but it is preferable to
treat it here as only biennial, otherwise it degenera