THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JULY 1st.. 184& 



PART I. 

 EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



CLEBODENDRUM SPLENDEXS. 'Splendid Fto-ered.) 



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Am evergreen hot-boose climbing plant, discovered in the woods of 



Sierra L&vx«e, and sent- to Mr. Knight, Nurseryman, King's Road, 

 Chelsea. It is certainly one of the best store climbers yet introduced. 

 It has a handsome large evergreen foliage. The plant is not of a 

 rambling habit, but, growing rapidly, is readily kept in order, and is a 

 most abundant bloomer. The flowers are produced in large terminal 

 corymbose clusters at the ends of die shoots. With Mr. Knight it 

 appears to be a perpetual bloomer. It thrives best when it is grown 

 in somewhat of shade, and requires a rich loamy coil and a free 

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 Whitfield, that there are other kinds, probably varieties, growing in 

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orange, brick-red, and crimson and white, all alike handsome with the 

 kind introduced and possessed by Mr. Knight. Ho doubt the others will 

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 fid hot-bouse ornaments. Mr. Knight has increased die stock of his 

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The 6gure we give only represents a part of a head of its bloom ; 

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Ack;me>£5 pedcxcclata. — (Long-stalked.) — When we sew die 

 beautiful Aehimenes's we have already figured, viz. a longiflora and 



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