DIELYTEA SPECTABILIS. 



twenty or thirty flower stalks, each with numerous gracefully drooping racemes of the 

 most unique and brilliant rosy flowers, is to see the Dielytra as it should be. We 

 beg to assure our readers that whatever has been said in praise of this plant, has not 

 been exaggerated — that it is no novelty lauded to-day to win it favor with the pub- 

 lic, and in six months hence to be cast aside as a " humbuo-." 



It is now some ten years or upwards since it was sent from China to England by 

 Mr. Fortune, the collector of the London Horticultural Society, and since that time 

 it has bloomed among the finest collections of plants in Europe, and in all cases it 

 has elicited unqualified praise. For many years its culture was confined to green- 

 houses and conservatories, as most rare plants are ; but latterly, as it became more 

 multiplied, it has been trusted to the garden ; and there, in a rich soil, with ample 

 room to spread its roots and gather food, it has developed its native luxuriance and 

 beauty. The finest specimen plant we have seen in this country in the open ground, 

 was in the garden of Abijah Reed, Esq., of Hulberton, Orleans Co., N. Y., a year 

 ago. That gentleman loses no opportunity to enrich his little garden with whatever 

 is new and excellent, and this he considers one of the finest hardy herbaceous border 

 plants he has seen. What adds immensely to its value is its entire adaptation to 

 either house or garden culture, and that it requires only the simplest treatment, out 

 doors or in, to ensure perfect 

 success. It is a plant for the 

 million. Our correspondent, 

 Mr. Sanders, has given an ac- 

 count of his success in forcing 

 it, and we have been able 

 from our own experience to 

 endorse all he has said. In 

 the garden it is as easily 

 grown as a common Pseony, 

 requiring no more than a good 

 deep and rich soil — the rich- 

 er the better. It is also one 

 of the easiest of plants to 

 multiply — just as easy as a 

 Dahlia. We propagate it 

 exactly in the same way, viz., 

 by cuttings of the young 

 shoots, taken off" in sprino^j 

 and placed on a gentle bottom 

 heat. Plants struck thus, 

 and bedded out as are Verbe- 

 nas, Petunias, &c., will bloom dielytra spectabilb. 



a long time toward the latter part of the season ; and by these succeedi ^ 

 plants that are allowed to remain in the grcund, it may be had in blossom 



