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most parts of Scotland, it is to be feared, it would do little good 

 except as a pot-plant ; but in the south it might be turned to 

 account as a subject for the subtropical garden. The votaries 

 of that system may make a note of it, that they have no more 

 gorgeous subject on their list. It combines the requisites of 

 bold and striking growth, proportionally ample foliage, and a 

 profusion of splendid scarlet flowers. In favourable places, 

 too, it might be used with advantage in ordinary bedding out 

 for the centres of large masses, and for breaking the uniformity 

 of long lines of borders. 



T. Bridgesii, syn. Lobelia Bridgesii {Bridge's Z.) — This 

 species was formerly in gardens in this country, but was lost, 

 and has vfery recently been reintroduced. It grows about 4 

 feet high, with stout stems, clothed with lance -shaped leaves, 

 narrowing much and sharply to the point. The flowers are 

 pink, in dense racemes, appearing in late summer. Native of 

 Chili. 



T. Feuillei, syn. Lobelia Tupa {FeuillePs T.) — The stems 

 are stout and slightly woody at the base. The leaves are 

 broadly lance-shaped, sharply toothed, and clothed with greyish 

 down. Flowers in rather dense erect spikes or racemes ter- 

 minating each stem, are brilliant scarlet, and appear in Sep- 

 tember and October. Native of Chili. 



CAMPANULACE^. 



This is a very distinguished order amongst herbaceous plants. 

 It presents the largest number of ornamental species for its 

 extent of any yet considered. There is very little comprised 

 in it that is not ornamental, more or less, and many of the 

 species are amongst the most beautiful of herbaceous plants; 

 indeed, without a large selection of the Cajtipamdacece, the best 

 collection would be incomplete and unsatisfactory. It is almost 

 exclusively an herbaceous order, as there is nothing strictly 

 woody contained in it ; but there are a few suffmticose plants 

 unfit, however, to associate with herbaceous ones in any orna- 

 mental arrangement, even if they were hardy, but I am not 

 aware of any of them being capable of withstanding the rigour 

 of our winter climate. The principal genus of the order is 

 Campajiula ; it is the largest and most beautiful, while it is also 

 the type of the family. The five or six other genera from which 



