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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[September, 



teen inches long, and gracefully arching on all 

 sides, giving the plant a very elegant contour. 



anth yellow. The plant is continuously in bloom 

 durina; the greater part of the year. 



They are furnished with deep, glossy, green | " The elegant habit of this plant, its richly- 

 leaves, and terminate in a dense raceme of flow- 1 colored flowers of singular structure, and their 

 ers, of which the bracts are scarlet and the peri- 1 long duration, render it a most useful and inter- 



