28 ON THE CULXIVAXION OF 150UVAUDIA IRIPUYLLA. 



seen an insect upon it; the leaves are used for garnishing, and the fruit 

 very much valued, heing of a peculiar delicious flavour. 



I have a plant of Passiflora quadrangularis planted in a corner of a 

 barlv bed in the same plant stove; it has ripened its fruit, each weighing 

 two pounds and a half, but the flavour of them was much inferior to the 

 edulis. The Combretum purpureum, in the same bark pit, flowers all 

 the year round. The Alpinia nutans turned out in another corner of 

 the pit has bloomed superbly, sending up six or seven very strong spikes 

 of flowers at the same time. 



About three years since I turned out into a border in the Conservatory 

 here, a plant of Brugmdnsia suavtiolens, it is now twelve feet high, and 

 has from three to four hundred flowers at the same time. The Azalea 

 iudica, lilba, hybrida, phasuicea are also turned out in the same borders, 

 and they have grown amazingly, and are for a considerable season one 

 mass of flowers. The soil of the border is equal parts of loam and peat, 

 the bottom well diaiued, 



John Sharman. ■ 



Syston Park, near Grantham, Feb. 20, 1833. 



ARTICLE III.— On the CuUivation of Bomardia tri- 

 phijlla, and Bouvdrdia Jacquinnii. By Mr, John 

 Ferguson. 



There are no plants more deserving of cultivation in the Flower Gar- 

 den than Bouviirdia triphylla, and Bouv.irdia Jacquinnii, flowering 

 most profusely in the open borders, and their very graceful trumpet 

 shaped flowers, formed in trusses, render them peculiarly suitable for 

 omamenting a flower garden. The duration of their flowering season 

 is from June till November, and the nearer they approach the end of 

 the season, the more abundantly they blossom, and the more splendid 

 is the appearance.. 



Two quite distinct plants are about in the country under the name 

 Bouv;irdia triphvUa; one has smooth, glossy, dark green leaves, the 

 other sort has foliage of a much paler green, and very pubescent (downy,) 

 and the leaves are less than the smooth sort. In the Botanical Register, 

 t. lOG, the latter sort has been described as ^ou^■:irdia triphylla, variety 

 pubesccns; but since it was inserted in that publication, it has been dis- 

 tinguished as a species, and denominated Bouv.-irdia Jacquinnii ; the 

 latter sort is the most free in flowering, but the blossoms of the other are 

 of a more lively scarlet colour. Either sort is easily propagated by 

 cuttings inserted in sandy loam, ;muI placed in a frame on a blight 



