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Lows PURPLE LOBELIA. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 
Nat.ord. LOBELIACEZ. (Introduction to the natural system of Botany, 
p. 187.) 
LOBELIA.— Supra, vol. 1. fol. 60. 
GARDEN VARIETY. 
Nothing certain is known of the origin of this plant. 
We understand it originally made its appearance in Scot- 
land, whence it was procured by Messrs. Low and Co. of 
the Clapton Nursery. 
We presume, however, there can be no doubt of its 
being a hybrid production between L. siphilitica and either 
L. fulgens, cardinalis, or splendens. 
To cultivators it is a plant of much importance. Its 
very brilliant colours, hardiness, and facility of cultivation, 
are all points of great merit. 
It grows about two feet high, is perfectly hardy in the 
summer, and flowers from May to October. p 
NOTE. 
In compliance with the suggestion of a Botanical friend, upon whose 
sound judgment we have great reliance, we have determined in future not to 
attach Botanical names to the Garden varieties we may hereafter publish, as 
an additional preventive to their finding their way into the com ilations of 
Botanists. We do not conceive that any inconvenience will result from this 
plan, which, on the contrary, will we trust be an ample assurance to our 
scientific friends, that, if we are seduced by the 
to receive them into our pages, we have no inten ne 
pass, even by mistake, if it can be prevented, into the records of legitimate 
species. 
