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Blue Nemophila

Nemophila insignis.

IT would be a difficult task to find a more familiar garden flower than the blue nemophila; for it is one of the first favourites of the amateur gardener, and never ceases--as some first favourites do--to retain a hold upon his affections, even when he has bloomed into the veteran horticulturist. The beginner may doat upon the clumps of lovely blue flowers that appear in the borders where, for the first time in his life, he has sown some seeds; but if he goes on as he began, taking constant interest in flowers, he may chance to see this same plant in a shape that tells emphatically its popularity. On all the great flower-seed farms it is grown in astonishing quantities, and the growers amuse their visitors by measuring the lines to state the sum-total in parts of a mile. The last measurement we witnessed amounted to three-quarters of a mile.