the 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MARCH 1st, 1845. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



1. PHLOX, vah. CAPTIVATION (HARRISON'S). 



This very handsome variety is one, out of a vast number, that we 

 have raised from seed, and which bloomed for the first time last year. 

 During the two previous years, we paid particular attention to the 

 impregnation of all the finest-formed flowers, and of the most dis- 

 similar colours, both in early and late blooming kinds, especially to 

 obtain the beautiful ones growing from one and a half to two feet 

 high, and having a striking centre ; and the results far exceeded our 

 expectation. We have many thousands to bloom the coming season, 

 and calculate on a valuable addition to this lovely tribe of hardy 

 plants. The entire tribe are deserving a place in the flower border, 

 and a selection of the best ought to be in every flower-garden. 



All are quite hardy, increase freely, and easy to cultivate, and a 

 succession of bloom in Phloxes may be had from April to November. 



2. LUCULIA. PINCIANA. 



Beautiful as is the L. gratissima, when producing its fine 

 clusters of fragrant and soft looking pink-coloured blossoms, yet 

 this new species is said very far to excel it in the magnitude 

 of its flowers, and the fine terminal heads in which they arc 

 congregated, each head being a foot or more in diameter, and these 



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