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of our gardens. It will require a loose, peaty, or sandy soil, careful shading from the midday sun, 
frequent sprinkling with water, and to be covered with a glass in hot dry weather. Under this 
treatment a plant of it in my garden has completely filled with its numerous stems a square hand- 
glass, twenty inches to the side, and twenty-four inches in depth; and apparently it would have 
grown larger, had space allowed the free development of the lateral branches, which are much 
cramped by the glass. It will bear some frost, but may likely prove more impatient of cold than our 
native species of the genus. In a Wardian case it would probably succeed very well." 
Such is the account given of this charming plant by Mr. Hewitt Watson, its discoverer. We 
find it thrive perfectly well in a greenhouse, among Heliotropes and Pelargoniums, where it ripens its 
little black glossy nuts (seeds) in tolerable abundance. The play of colour in the many-tinted flowers 
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, and flower-buds is scarcely rivalled by anything in cultivation. 
