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high ; its flowers are of buff colour, with a purple eye, and arc pro- 

 duced all the summer. A rich loam suits it best. The T. leucantha, 

 white with dark eye, and the T. aurantiaca, of a fine orange with 

 dark eye and large flower, alike deserve a place in every greenhouse. 

 . Tropceolum tricolorum is one of the most beautiful creepers in 

 cultivation : it may be grown in a pot of sandy loam, and be trained 

 to a trellis. To prevent drought injuring its roots, its pot should be 

 placed in a larger one and filled round with damp moss or sand ; 

 it flowers all the spring and summer. Introduced from Peru. 



Tropceolum brachyceras is a plant of the same habit as the last 

 mentioned, and requires the same treatment ; its flowers are yellow, 

 and blooms all the spring and early summer months. 



Truro, May, 1840. 



ARTICLE IX. 



REMARKS ON CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS— Variety coccineus. 



BY MR. JAMES SOUTHWOOD, MARWOOD IIII.L, NEAR BARNSTAPLE. 



I am induced to send you a description of the variety " Coccineus 

 elegans," now in great perfection in the gardens at Marwood Hill, 

 near Barnstaple, with a short account of its culture. 



Early in the spring of 1837 I raised the plant from a small cut- 

 ting, and, when well rooted, shifted it into a forty-eight sized pot, 

 and placed it in the greenhouse, where it remained till May in the 

 following year. I then plunged it into the ground against a south 

 wall, where it continued till October, having, in the meantime, at- 

 tained the height of five feet, and thrown out numerous racemes of 

 flower-buds. Finding, from its rapid growth, that the space allotted 

 for it was too confined, I removed it to a more advantageous site 

 against the house, which I effected with complete success, the plant 

 not sustaining any injury nor stoppage in its growth. In May, 

 1839, it bloomed profusely, and was the admiration of all who saw 

 it ; and again in the months of November, December, and January, 

 and even during the late severe weather, it was not wholly without 

 flower. At this time the countless racemes are fast developing 

 themselves, and await only a more genial atmosphere literally to 

 cover the wall with its splendid pendent scarlet flowers, many of 



