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* ECHEVfeRIA secLinda. 

 One-sided Echeveria. 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 

 Nat, ord. Crassulace^. 

 ECHEVERIA. Botanical Register, vol. 15. ^ 1247. 



E. secunda ; foliis rosulato-confertis cuneatis mucronatis pinguibns glaucis, 

 racemo secundo recurvo, floribus longe pedunculatis. Bof. Reg. 1839. 

 misc. 112. 



So full an account has been given by Mr. Booth of this 

 plant at no. 112 of the miscellaneous notices of the Botanical 

 Register for 1839, that little remains to be added. 



It has now been cultivated for some time in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society, where it was received from Sir 

 Charles Lemon, Bart, and it proves a very beautiful green- 

 house plant, of the easiest management, remaining in flower 

 during many weeks in the summer. It would doubtless suc- 

 ceed perfectly well in a sitting room, with Aloes, Stapelias, 

 and such plants ; only it is necessary that it should be fully 

 exposed to the hottest sun for as long a period of the summer 

 as possible, otherwise it will become draiun, and its colours 

 will want brightness. 



Care too must be taken that the pot in which it is placed 

 is thoroughly drained of superfluous moisture, by means of a 

 deep layer of broken pottery ; for it is more liable to suffer 

 from damp than from drought. 



From its sides below the leaves there spring many young 

 branches, or suckers, as in the common Houseleek, and by 

 those it is freely multiplied, each sucker forming a plant if 

 potted in silver sand. 



* See folio 1247. 



