THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



FEBRUARY 1st, 1842. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



DAUBENTONIA TRIPETIANA. (Monsieur Tripet't Daubentonia.) 



I.KGUMINOSJE. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



This beautiful flowering shrubby plant is a native of Buenos Ayres, 

 seeds of which had been obtained by M. Tripet Le Blanc, nurseryman 

 of Paris, with whom it has bloomed, and specimens exhibited at a 

 show in Paris, and by the kindness of a friend we received a drawing, 

 and the particulars we here record concerning the plant. 



M. Tripet Le Blanc sowed seeds of it, and put them in a hot-bed 

 frame in February, 1840. The plants pushed up in about three weeks; 

 they were soon after potted off in rich soil, replaced in the frame, 

 and as required were repotted, till in August they formed fine 

 branching tree-like plants a yard high ; they were then removed to 

 the open air and plunged in a bed, where they immediately showed 

 flower buds arising from the clear parts of the branches, and not, as 

 is usual, from the axils of the leaves. When the racemes of flowers 

 were fully developed, they were about six inches long, standing nearly 

 erect, each having about twenty blossoms. The branches are nume- 

 rously furnished with racemes, even to the extremities, and as the 

 flowers of the first produced racemes decay, and the shoots keep ex- 

 tending, fresh racemes are produced, and thus its extraordinary beauty 

 continues to increase, and renders it one of the most handsome and 



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