has not been observed here, except when the plant has been 

 kept for some time in a peculiarly warm damp situation* 



th 

 Jlorida 



It is plain that this new comer will supersede the 



It is propagated with the greatest 

 facility, and by management may be made to flower nearly 

 the year round. When a (lower dies, two new branches ap- 

 pear by the side of its stalk, each of which, if the plant is 



ed in the hothouse, will soon produce a tl 

 turn, and so on in succession. But Jlorida is 



more d 

 and th 



plant of 



periority in beauty 

 has takei 



far more shily ; takes more 



flowers only once in the ) 



f 



nd has no su- 

 as soon as it 



bear a flo 



The nurserymen generally keep their stock of these plants, 

 from the autumn till about March, in the greenhouse, and 



then plunge them into a common hotbed ; by which means 

 they are presently brought into bloom. Plants so treated 

 last longer, and continue .more healthy, than when kept 

 constantly in the hothouse. 



Much cultivated in China, from whence it was sent by 

 Mr. William Kerr in 1804, to the Court of Directors of the 

 East India Company, in the Henry Addington, Captain 

 Kirkpatrick. 



The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, 

 King's Road, Little Chelsea. Plants of it are now frequent 

 in all the principal nurseries near London, being most 

 justly in great request. 



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