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young; but afterwards changing to the colour of rusty iron: they 

 have short thick footstalks, and are placed without order round the 

 branches: between these the buds are formed for the next year's 

 flowers; these swell to a large size during the autumn and spring 

 months till the beginning of June, ^hen the flowers burst out from 

 their covers, forming a roundish sessile bunch or corymb. It is a 

 native of North America, tlowering here from June to August. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased by sewing the seeds, 

 ■which are very small, as soon as possible after they are procured, 

 either in a shady border, or in pots iilled with fresh loam, having 

 Ihem very lightly covered with a little fine mould, and plunging the 

 pots up to their rims in a shady border, and in hard frost covering 

 them with bell or hand-olasses: taking them off in mild Aveather. 

 When they are sown early in autumn, the plants come up the fol- 

 lowing spring, when they must be kept shaded from the sun, espe- 

 cially the first summer, and duly refreshed with water; in the autumn 

 following removing ihem to a shady situation, on a loamy soil, 

 covering the ground about the roots with moss, to guard them from 

 frost in winter and keep the ground moist in the summer season. 



They may also be increased from suckers or offsets, which they 

 produce plentifully where they grow naturally, but seldom in this 

 climate. 



They are very ornamental in the border, clumps, and other parts 

 of shrubberies. 



