. Park's floral guide, 1896. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. I Hibiscus Africanus, hardy annual, Africa,1826 I This is a hardy annual, that delights in a ight, warm soil, where it will grow two ieet high, bearing attractive cream-col- ored flowers with brown centre. It propagates from self-sown seeds in mild climates. H. tri- onum is similar, but is inferior to this sort. Easily transplant- ed. Set eight inches apart. H. Africanus is often called Flow- er-of-an Hour, because it opens in toe morning on bright days,. and remains open but a short lime. One of the easi
. Park's floral guide, 1896. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. I Hibiscus Africanus, hardy annual, Africa,1826 I This is a hardy annual, that delights in a ight, warm soil, where it will grow two ieet high, bearing attractive cream-col- ored flowers with brown centre. It propagates from self-sown seeds in mild climates. H. tri- onum is similar, but is inferior to this sort. Easily transplant- ed. Set eight inches apart. H. Africanus is often called Flow- er-of-an Hour, because it opens in toe morning on bright days,. and remains open but a short lime. One of the easier grown of the Rlalva family. iTMfjnemanMiafumarisefolia, perennial. 1827 — 5 A rather elegant, erect- growing perennial, a nativo of Mexico, blooming the first season if started early. The plant g-ows two feet high, with glaucous foliage and orange flowers unlike an Eschscholtzia, which keep in perfection for a long time. It belongs to the Poppy familv. When in Mexico I found handsome blooming speci- mens of this fine perennial growing in waste places. Its b^anty and attractiveness in i native soil was commendu-i ble and it is certainly-a vaiua-1 ble acquisition to our list of flowers. Jmpatiens glandulifera. Annuals, India, 5 A handsome annual growing readily from seeds, and attaining the height of from four to eix feet, The flowers, which are purple, and of the form indicated in the illustration, are pro- duced in large, showy, drooping racemes a clusters at the extrem- ity of the branches. This is a near relative of the garden Balsam and of the Zanzibar Balsam, and is a fine annual for growing among dwarf shrubbery for autumn blooming. The "Touch-me-nots" found in our field; and meadows are not unlike this tropical species, but are not so free- blooming. They are in- teresting, too, coming among the ear iest seed- lings, and developicg rapidly into plants with blooms and loaded seed-pods, ready to ex- plode upon the slightest touch. They are
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