not knowing of what country his plant was native, and 
finding that in a Greenhouse it did not thrive, he put it in 
a stove, when it at length unfolded its magnificent blossoms. 
We suppose it is possible to increase it either by divi- 
sion of its perennial root, or by cuttings, although its soft 
annual stem is but ill adapted to the latter operation. Its 
seeds may be procured abundantly from North America, 
and are, in fact, often imported for sale along with other 
American productions. 
With our wild specimens from South Carolina, gathered 
by the late Mr. Frazer, the Garden plant agrees suffi- 
ciently. Cavanilles says his flowers in the Garden at 
Madrid. had a yellowish white colour; but Pursh, and all 
other authors, describe them as purple or rosy red. 
J, L 
