THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



APRIL 1st, 1846. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



.ARTICLE I. EMBELLISHMENTS. 



PENTSTEMON GIGANTEA ELEGANS. 



We received the drawing of this very splendid flower from Messrs. 

 Benton and Co., Nurserymen, of Monument-lane, Edgbaston, near 

 Birmingham. The plant grows very vigorously, rising from four to 

 five feet high, and blooming profusely. When Messrs. Benton and 

 Co. advertised it for sale, last November, the original plant had more 

 than one hundred spikes of flowers. The foliage too, they add, is 

 very handsome. The plant is quite hardy, and merits a place in 

 every flower garden, where it would be one of the most showy and 

 ornamental flowers. It is easy of culture, grows freely, and readily 

 propagated, so as to be perpetuated without difficulty. 



ARTICLE II. 



PREFATORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE CULTURE AND PROPAGA- 

 TION OF WHAT ARE USUALLY TERMED FLOWERING PLANTS. 



BY J. E. M. 



A taste for the cultivation of flowers is now being so extensively 

 diffused, that I think it would not be without its use to endeavour, 

 through the medium of the Cabinet, to draw the attention of young 

 amateurs to an observance of some of the more prominent laws on 

 which are founded the successful practice of plant cultivation. 

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