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Calandrina. [Portulaceae.] A family of herbaceous 

 plants which do well treated as annuals. They should be 

 started early from seed in a moderate hot-bed, and planted 

 out in a dry hot situation after the weather has become set- 

 tled. If sown in August, and wintered in a greenhouse, 

 they flower finely in the border the following summer. 

 They need a sunny exposure, as the flowers only expand in 

 the sun. 



C. discolor (two-colored) ; 2 feet ; flowers rosy purple, in July ; 

 ChiU ; 1834. C grandijiora (large-flowered); 2 feet; flowers 

 rose purple, in July ; Chili ; 1826. C. prociunbens {^xozwxi^^Yi^ ; 

 3 inches ; flowers rose purple, in July ; Peru ; 1827. C. speciosa 

 (showy) ; 3 inches ; flowers rose, in July ; California ; 1831. C. 

 itmbellata (umbelled) ; 6 inches ; flowers rose-purple, in July ; 

 Peru ; 1826. 



There are other species some of which are stove plants. 



Calceolaria. Shrubs and herbaceous plants, properly 

 greenhouse plants, but doing well in the border in summer. 

 The shrubby varieties are far superior to the herbaceous, 

 and are very useful for summer decoration. Calceolarias 

 are, strictly speaking, greenhouse plants, and will bear no 

 frost. They are generally kept, until they are rising for 

 bloom, in pits, where frost can be kept out by mats or other 

 coverings ; for any thing short of frost will not hurt them. 

 They are propagated by cuttings of the side-shoots, which 

 root freely if planted in light sandy peat, about October ; but 

 they do not root freely if planted in spring or summer. 

 Seeds may be sown in pans, or wide-mouthed pots, in Au- 

 gust, and the seedlings potted off, six or eight in a pot, when 

 large enough ; and after this, when they have got forward 

 enough, put singly in small pots, to be changed from time to 

 time for larger : these bloom early the following year. Later 

 blooming plants may be had by sowing in spring. The 



