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stems, ho hns planted round them, at the distance of a foot or 

 more, a number of these shoots, and the effect is extremely good, 

 as they soon unite with the old bush, and continue its dark fo- 

 liage down to the ground. This plan answers best with the 

 Laurel and Laurestinus. 



Primula Scotica. 



ARTICLE VI. 

 A DESCRIPTION Or THE MIMULUS CARDINALIS COCCINEA, See. 



BY MB. nARBATT. 



When the above plant figured in your interesting Work, it was 

 an object of universal admiration, consequently it was much in 

 demand, but when the plants thus purchased flowered, there was 

 a general disappointment, it proved a dingy bad spotted red, and 

 thus the plant fell into great disrepute, indeed the very mention 

 of the name, seemed to excite disgust. However, happen- 

 ing last year somewhere to see a plant in bloom which very 

 nearly answered the colour (not exactly the shape) of the one 

 you figured, I purchased it under the name of Mimulus Cardi- 

 nalis coccinea, it is now in full bloom, several stems near six feet 

 high, covered with splendid scarlet blossoms, six or seven hun- 

 dred at least; it has been greatly admired, and I think, has re- 

 moved the existing disgust, from the minds of all who have seen 

 it. I think I never saw a more splendid plant, and at the same 

 time emitting a most delightful musky fragrance, and appears to 

 me to be a very desirable plant. Since purchasing the above 

 plant I have got another variety which I call M. Car. picta, the 

 ground colour is the same as the M. C, coccinea, with a large 

 dark spot in the centre of the flower, about the size of a shilling ; 

 this also promises to be a very desirable plant, either for early 

 forcing in a greenhouse, or for flower borders in summer. I 

 should not have ventured to trouble you with this account, but I 

 really think, such showy plants so cheap(see Advertisement in the 

 Cabinet for June 1837), and so easy of cultivation, that is, grow 

 jt in a rich soil, and supply it with plenty of water, in rather a 

 shady situation: it would really be a matter of deep regret 

 should siich plants not be grown in almost every garden in the 



kingdom. 



W. BarrAtt. 



