magnificent umbel of fine blue flowers, which come forth 
irregularly during the whole of the year, but more frequently 
from Auguft-to January. 
This plant only requires prote@tion from froft and moifture, 
it fhould not, therefore, have any artificial warmth in winter, 
at leaft no more than is neceffary to fecure it from froft 
(unlefs our objeét. be to force it, which it bears admirably 
well) and muft be fet in the open air in fummer: at the clofe* 
of the year, when coming into bloom, it will require the fhelter 
of the green-houfe, fe 
Is propagated by offsets, which come out from the fide of the 
old plant, and may be taken off the latter end of June. 
It will not grow and flower in perfeétion unlefs it have plenty 
of pot room, and the fpace that it thus occupies is often more 
than a fmall green-houfe can afford. : 
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