6 ON THE CULTURE OF LOBELIA CARDINALIS. 



4. S. oculaUi. Synonym, Ceratochilus oculatus. (Bot. Cab. 

 1764.) The flowers are very splendid, nearly five inches across, 

 of a sulphur-yellow colour, beautifully spotted and marked with a 

 deep purple. The plant is a native of Brazil. The magnificence, 

 beauty, and fragrance of the flowers, recommend it to every col- 

 lection. 



These species are readily increased by division of the plant, 

 are easily cultivated, and flower freely when the plants have been 

 established for a year or two. Loddiges, Knight, Lowe, and 

 some of the Liverpool nurserymen, possess these kinds for sale, 

 and they may be obtained at a reasonable charge. A large and 

 healthy plant is pretty even without a flower, but its magnificence 

 is great when in bloom. 



A Country Amateur Florist. 



(TO BE CONTINUED.) 



ARTICLE II.— On the Culture of Lobelia Cardinalis. 

 By Emily Armstronge. 



In the progress of my remarks on a flower garden, in a former 

 Number of the Cabinet, I stated that, with your permission, I 

 would offer a few observations on the cultivation of the Lobelia 

 Cardinalis ; and I now proceed to redeem my pledge. 



Having grown this splendid flower for several years, in various 

 ways, to ascertain the best, and yet at the same time the easiest, 

 manner of cultivation, I send you this short account of my method 

 of treatment j more especially as, after perusing the communica- 

 tions of An Ardent Amateur and G. H., myself and many of 

 your readers, who possess neither stove, hothouse, nor greenhouse, 

 would be deterred from the cultivation altogether. I have adopted 

 a more simple and successful method than that proposed by Mr. 

 John Wineield. If the plants should be left unprotected in the 

 open ground during the winter season, they droop, and finally 

 decay earlv in the spring season. I have also found, ou trial, that 

 though the plants were well mulched around each root during the 

 winter and spring months, with a flower-pot inserted over the 

 crown of the plants in frosty or rainy nights and days, yet they 

 never reached a greater height than one or two feet ; and this me- 



