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almost to the midrib; these jags are opposite, ar.d 

 ihe segments are obtuse : the flowers come out 

 at the pirns of the stalks upon pretty long pe- 

 duncles ; the outer calyx is composed ot ten 

 ]um narrow leaves, which join at iheir base ; 

 thelnucr is of one thin leaf, swollen like a blad- 

 der, cut into five acute segments at the top, 

 having several longitudinal puiplc ribs, and is 

 hairy ; both these are permanent, and inclose 

 the capsule after the flower is pa^t : the flower 



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Indies all their alterations happen the same day J 

 but that n England, where the flowers last near 

 a week in beauty, the changes are not so sud- 

 den. It is a native of the East Indies, &c. The 

 period of its blowing in the stoves of this climate 

 is November and DL-eember. 



It vanes with double flowers, from which the 

 single is frequently produced ; but the seeds of 

 thc'sinale seldom vary to the double kind. 



Cultiire. — The first sort is increased by seeds', 

 IS composeVof'fivc'oht'use' petal's, which spread layers, and cuttings. 

 open at^he top, and form an open bell-shaped The seeds should be procured from abroad, 

 Zwer- these have dark purple bottoms, but are and sown m pots filled with light earth in the 

 of a pale sulphur colour abov. , tinged sometimes early sprmg months, p ungmg them m a -entle 

 partiillv wuh pale purple on the outside, where hot-bed to bring them forward or on a border 

 hev are also ribbed : the capsule is ovate, the in a warm exposure. They should be watered 

 consistence of paper, pustuled with protube- during the summer and be protected from frost 

 rinces occasioned by the seeds, villose and in the winter. When they have had two years 

 black It is annual, growincr naturally in Italy, growth, they may be set out in nursery rows, or 

 SiC The flowers are of shon duration, in hot be planted where they are to remain, 

 weather continuing only a few hours open ; but The layers should be laid down m the autumn, 

 there is a succession of them daily for a consi- the shoots being cut on the backs at one or two 

 derable time, in June, July, and August. It joints, and well laid into the ground. They are 

 has been Ion'' known by 'the title of Venice generally well rooted m twelvemonths, when 

 Mallow. ° '^'^y "">' ^^ '"^^" °^ ^"" removed to where 



There are varieties with erect purplish stems, they are to remain, 

 and the flowers laro:er, and their colour deeper; The cuttings of the young shoots should be 

 and with large paler-coloured flowers. planted m pots of light earth in the early spring. 



The third, in its native situation, grows to the plunging them ui a mild hot-bed ; or they may 

 size of an ordinary tree ; but here it is shrubbv, be planted m a shady border in the summer 

 the stem round, erect, with alternate, spreading season. When well rooted, they should be 

 branches, that are wand-like, leafy, brownish- carefully taken up and planted where they are to 

 e-reen, and nearly smooth : the leaves alternate, remain, either ui the autumn or spring, 

 spreading, unequally and coarsely serrate, entire The second sort is aicreased by sowing the 

 at the base, fivL-nerved, bri.iht green, very seed either in the autumn or spring, m the 

 smooth, except the young ones, which are places where the plants are to flower, in patches 

 6li"-h;ly downy; their petioles are roimd, downy of several seeds together. When they come 

 on^he upper side: the stipules in pairs, oppo- up, they should be thinned out to two or three 

 site, at the base of the petioles, linear, acute^ plants in each patch 



deciduous : the flowers axillary, solitary, pe- 

 duneled, large, of a deep scarkt colour, re- 

 sembling a double rose. It is conmion in Chi- 

 na and the East Indies. It is rare with single 

 flowers. 



The two last sorts may be increased by sowing 

 the seeds in the early spring months, in pots 

 filled with rich light mould, plunging them in a 

 moderate hot-bed under glasses, or, what is 

 better, in the bark-bed of the stove. When the 



The fourth species nas a pale stem, single, plants are up, and have attained two or three 



smooth, spreading out wide into leafy branc^hes inches in growth, they should be removed into 



at top; the wood re>Lmblina- that of the fii;-: separate small pots, watermg them well, and 



the leaves are the same size^with those of the replunging them in the hot-bed, where they 



vine, having the roughness of fiij leaves, and the must be kept. 



form of both, or rather of the a^ngular leaves of They may likewise sometimes be raised by 



ivy ; whitish underneath : the petioles rough, planting cuttings of the young shoots in pots 



thick, three or four inches in length : the pe- of the same sort of earth, in the spring or 



duncles thicker towards the top, sometimes summer, giving them water, and plunging them 



tinged with red, sustaining large handsome in the bark hut bed. They should afterwards 



flowers, which alter in their" colour, as at their be managed as the others. 



first openingthey are white, then they change to The two first hardy sorts arc highly orna- 



a blush rose-colour, and as the\ decay they'turn mental in the borders and clumps, among other 



to a purple. Martyn remarks, that in the' West flowery plants; and the two last tender sorts; 



