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Fig. 77. — Plant of Torenia, in the collection of J. Dundas, Esq., Philadelphia. 



CULTURE OF TORENIA A3IATICA. 

 BY R. SCOTT, PHILADELPHIA. 



SiE' — Having introduced this plant to the 

 notice of your readers, in a previous num- 

 ber of the Horticulturist, it may be inte- 

 resting to some of them to give a few more 

 additional hints on its cultivation, and what 

 size it can be grown under good manage- 

 ment, as it is likely to become a univer- 

 sal favorite with all lovers of Flora, both 

 from its profuse, rich mottled, dark blue, 

 and violet flowers, and its rapidity of 

 growth. 



The treatment which I shall notice more 

 particularly, is that practiced by Mr. Bis- 

 set, (gardener to J. Dundas, Esq.,) one of 

 the most successful, and best practical gar- 

 deners in this neighborhood. He procured 



his plant last February, then about four 

 inches high, from Mr. Buist, nurseryman, 

 who introduced it into this country last fall. 



About the beginning of March, from a 

 three inch pot, he turned it into a sieve, 

 about sixteen inches in diameter by five 

 deep, in soil one-half rich turfy loam, the 

 other equal portions of peat and leaf mould. 

 After fixing it in the sieve, he hung it up 

 in a hot-house, — keeping it moist by fre- 

 quent syringing, and topping at every se- 

 cond joint, to make it bushy. 



About the end of April he removed it 

 into a Camellia-house, where it now re- 

 mains. It is trained horizontally, — the 

 side branches allowed to hang down all 



