THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JULY 1st, 1841. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



1.— CHOROZEMA LATIFOLIA. {Broad-leaved Chorozcma.) 



LeQUMINOS-E. DeCANDRIA MoNOQi'NIA. 



[Chorozema, from clwros, a dance ; and zema, a drink.] 

 This name was suggested to Labillardiere, who originally discovered 

 the plant upon the south-west coast of New Holland, at the foot of 

 the mountains, near a spot where, after finding many salt-springs, 

 his party met with an ample supply of fresh water. 



We received seeds (along with many others) of this very beautiful 

 (lowering kind from Edward Young, Esq., Codington, near Newark, 

 and it has recently bloomed with us. The plant is of vigorous habit, 

 a very free bloomer, and is far handsomer than any other kind we 

 have seen ; it deserves a place in every collection of greenhouse 

 plants. Like all the other kinds it grows freely in a compost com- 

 posed of two parts turfy peat, one part sand, and one part of light 

 loam, with a little well rotted manure. The compost should not be 

 sifted but chopped with a spade ; this attention is essential to suc- 



B. A free drainage should also be given. Wide and shallow 

 pots too are much better than narrow and deep ones. In pots of the 

 latter kind the plants grow spindling, but in the former generally 

 bushy and vigorous, having plenty of surface room for the roots. 

 The plants require to be kept in the greenhouse all the year, having 

 plenty of air. When they are growing, a free supply of water is 

 required ; but when dormant, very little, or the points of the roots will 

 rot, and the plants be sickly. Plants are easily raised by cuttings of 

 the young ripened shoots, of three or four joints long, slipped oil', and 



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