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were grown singly in pots ; but this meconopsis is

not delicate.

Those grown under glass were thought to be a trifle straighter, more. upright in form than the rest, but a cottager could grow ,the flower, if he were a careful gardener, and it seeds very :freely., Doubtless we shall soon have sports from it and

perhaps hybridized. forms. One mauve plant was " thrown " from the seed of the batch shown to me ; and there is no .reason why the plant should not -develop as many variations as,tbe delphinium, to which it has an affinity in colour, though

:in no, other regard. Probably it is not a perennial in the ,technieal sense, but an individual plant will live, at any rate, three years., , •

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