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A little annual that is not enough grown is the nemophila, of a delicious blue. Probably it has been ousted by the nemesia—originally a bronze-yellow, but now procurable in every sort of shade, including light blue. And, indeed, the nemesia is incomparable, not only because of its many colours, most of them suggestive of jewels, but from its convenient habit of growing thicker and thicker as the season advances. It is a wonder that the rage for blue has not turned the attention of florists to the wild succoury, whose light blue shade is one of the rarest ; and the flower already in the wild state has sufficient size and form to give it a garden character. Would not the succoury or chicory be as capable of improvement as, say, the knapweed, which, as centaurea, is rapidly becoming one of the most popular flowers grown ?
W. BEACH Tames.
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