days before the bud was expected to open, and sent it to us; 
which being set in water, the flowers began to open in the 
evenitig, and by midnight was fully expanded. . 
The first account we have of one of these plants flowering 
in Europe, is by Dr. Trew, in the ninth volume of the Acta 
Nature Curiosorum ; where there is an incorrect figure of 
one which flowered in the garden of the university of Altorf, 
in the Canton of Uri, in the year 1747; but it had flowered ~ 
many years before in Germany, and about the same time 
at Vienna, in the garden of Prince Everne. A better 
figure is given in the tenth volume of the same work. But 
the best representation of the flower, is by Dr. Rister, 
froma plant which had been many years in his father’s stove, 
but at the time of its blossoming, was in the possession of 
the Syndic Horer, of Muhlhausen. 
In this country it first flowered at Hampton-Court, and at 
the Marquis of Rocxineuam’s: in the former place it appears 
to have been cultivated seventy years, before it produced any 
flowers, being in the collection there in 1690, and not having 
blossomed in England, according to’ Minter, in 1759. 
Perhaps the reason of its having been more shy of flowering 
here than on the Continent is, that the wetness of our sum- 
mers have hardly admitted of the plant’s being entirely ex- 
posed to the open air during the summer months; which 
Dr. Rister recommends, and so all the flowering plants, 
above mentioned, appear to have been treated. ; 
As most or all of this family grownaturally in a poor arid soil, 
they should be planted in a mixture of lime, rubbish, and sand, 
with a small proportion of loam, and the bottom of the pot to 
one-third of its whole depth should be covered with breken 
potsherds in layers, gradually finer towards the top. They 
are propagated by cuttings, which should be kept in’a dry ~ 
place for a month before they are planted: In the winter, — 
the dry stove is recommended, and, if in the bark-stove, 
_ they should be not watered at all. When the weather is dry 
and warm, it is far better that they should be entirely , 
to the open air. Flowers in July, August, or September. 
