Lupine. Fifty-seven species. Chiefly hardy annual and herbaceous plants. Of these the propagation is effected by seed in the open ground in March, April, and May, observing that as too copious moisture is apt to rot the seed, they should not be sowed earlier than the middle or latter end of March, except on very dry, warm soils.

The annual sorts should be sowed at once in the places where the plants are to flower, for they d6 not succeed by transplantation, and to have a succession of bloom, about three or four different sowings may be necessary from about the middle or latter end of March until June, especially the yellow sort, whose bloom is rather of short duration; observing to sow all the sorts in patches, four, five, or six seeds in each, near an inch deep, and when the plants come up, leave only three of the best of them, though of the large kind one or two may be sufficient in each place. When large quantities are required for nosegays to supply the markets, etc.,as practised about London with the yellow sweet scented sort, they may be sowed in rows in beds, drilling them in an inch deep, allowing a foot between the rows. Keep them clean from weeds, which is all the culture they require: the first sown plants will furnish plenty of ripe seed. If some seeds are sowed in au-tumn,in September, in a warm dry situation, the plants will come up, and often stand the winter tolerably well, and flower early the following year; or, if some are sowed in pots, especially the giant sort, comprising the Large Blue, and the Rose Lupine, which in wet autumns ripen seed but indifferently, so that by placing the pots in a garden frame, to have occasional protection from hard frost, they will flower early in the following summer, so as to perfect seeds before they are attacked by the autumnal rains.

The perennial sort may be sowed either in patches in the different compartments as already observed, for the plants to remain where sowed; or may be sowed in beds in drills for transplantation; but as the plants generally send their roots deep into the ground, they generally succeed best when permitted to remain where raised. - Aber-crombie.