great beauty and sweetnesse withall, that my garden of delight cannot
bee unfurnished of it, and again the whole flower hath a fine small
sent, very pleasing, which being placed in the middle of some Carnations
or Gilloflowers (for they are in flower at the same time) make a
delicate Tussimusie, as they call it, or Nosegay, both for sight and
sent."

As the _Passiflora cærulea_, from its superior beauty and hardiness, has
in a great degree supplanted the _incarnata_, so has the _Tropæolum
majus_ the _minus_; we have been informed indeed that it was entirely
lost to our gardens till lately, when it was reintroduced by Dr.
J. E. SMITH, who by distributing it to his friends, and the
Nurserymen near London, has again rendered it tolerably plentiful.

Like the _majus_ it is an annual, though by artificial heat it may be
kept in a pot through the winter, as usually is the variety of it with
double flowers; but as it will grow readily in the open air, in warm
sheltered situations, it should be raised on a hot-bed, like other
tender annuals, if we wish to have it flower early in the summer,
continue long in blossom, and produce perfect seeds.




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ANTIRRHINUM PURPUREUM. PURPLE TOAD-FLAX.


_Class and Order._