Bartonia aurea. - Golden-flowered. - A very pretty flow-ering annual, the flower-stem rising a foot high. The plant produces a profusion of showy flowers, of a fine golden-yellow color. Each blossom is about two inches and a half across. The plant is a native of California. It delights in a sheltered, sunny situation, and it is to be grown in a rich soil, where it will bloom profusely. The plant requires to be raised as a frame annual, and to be planted in the border in May.