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riegated-leaved and double-flowered varieties, 
ls. 6d. each: seeds are 6s. a pound, At Boll- 
wyller, the price is 1 franc and 50 cents each 
plant, for the single-flowered varieties, and 2 
francs 50 cents for each of the double-flowered 
varieties, At New York, the single-flowered 
varieties are 25 cents a plant, the white- 
double-flowered, and the purple-double-flow- 
ered, 37 cents a plant; and the other double- 
flowered varieties, 50 cents a plant: the seed 
1s 56 cents a quart. 
App. I. Other ligneous Plants of the 
order Malva'cee, which will probably 
be found hardy or half-hardy. 
Sida pulchélla Bonpl., Abitilon pulchéllum Bot. Mag., 
t. 2573., and our fig. 8Y. An evergreen New Holland shrub, 
introduced in 1824, producing its clusters of beautiful white 
blossoms in the gullies about Sandy Bay, and at the foot of 
Mount Wellington, in the neighbourhood of Hobart Town, 
in the depth of winter ; and, as might have been expected, it 
is found to stand the open air, in sheltered situations, in Eng- 
land. There is a plant against a wall in the Botanic Garden 
at Kew, which has stood there since 1822, without any pro- 
tection whatever. There is a plant of it at Spring Grove, 
Middlesex, which forms a bush between 3 ft. and 4 ft. 
high, which has stood several winters without protection, 
and flowers freely every winter and i wae We have 
just (February, 1836) sent to ascertain how it has passed 
the late severe frosts, when the thermometer was at 10°; and learn, with satisfaction, that it 
has suffered little or no injury. The plant is easily increased by cuttings. There is another species, 
or, Ya a variety of this one, which has stood some winters, in a warm situation, at Redleaf, 
in Kent, where it flowers in January, February, and March, (See Gard. Mag., xi. p. 208.) 
CHAP. XVII. 
OF THE HARDY AND HALF HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 
STERCULIA‘CEX. 
Tuis order is introduced chiefly for the sake of Stercidia platanifolia L. 
(Cav. Dis., 5. t.149., and our fig. 90.) It is a tree, a native of Japan and 
China, with fine large palmate leaves, smooth on both surfaces, and up- 
right branches without visible buds ; that is, with the buds concealed like 
those of the seat the Gymndécladus. The flowers are small and green, or 
greenish yellow. The tree was introduced in 1757, and, at first, treated as a 
green-house plant; but it has since been found to be quite hardy in the 
neighbourhood of London, more especially when planted against a wall. 
There is a tree in the Chelsea Botanic Garden 12 ft. high, which has stood 
out many years with only a little litter thrown round it occasionally, to 
rotect the roots. ’ : S589 
~ S. lanceolata Cav. (Bot. Reg., 1256.), from China; S. diversifolia G. Don, 
from New Holland ; S. tomentdsa Thunb., from Japan ; S. peléa@ta G. Don, 
from China; are all handsome deciduous trees, with very handsome 
foliage, growing to the height of 20 ft.; and are probably all equally hardy 
with S. platanifdlia. Some of them can be purchased, in the nurseries, 
at from 5s. to 7s. each. 
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