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never over-watered. They are very desirable in collections 

 for their beauty of foliage. (Soil No. 9.) 



Leucospermums, about eighteen species of Proteacous 

 plants, chiefly low growing, and are mostly downy or hairy; 

 flowers yellow, in terminal heads. L.formosum, L. gran- 

 diflorum, L. tomentosum, and L. candicans, rose-scented. 

 These are fine species. For treatment, see Proteas. (Soil 

 No. 9.) 



Linums, flax, two or three species are very fine, and 

 flower freely. L. trigynum has large yellow flowers in 

 clusters, and L. ascyrifolium, whose flowers are large, 

 blue and white, and in long spikes. They bloom in Feb- 

 ruary ; the shape of them is very like the flower vulgarly 

 called Morning-glory. (Soil No. 4.) 



Liparias, about five species, much esteemed for their 

 beauty of foliage; leaves ovate, lanceolate, downy or wool- 

 ly; flowers yellow, leguminose and capitate. L. sphserica, 

 L. tomentosa, L. villosa and L. sericea, are the finest. L. 

 vistita and L. villosa are the same, although put in many 

 catalogues as different species. None of them ought to be 

 much watered over the foliage, as it adheres to the down, 

 and causes the young shoots to damp off'. Drain the pots 

 well, and keep the plants in an airy situation. (Soil 

 No. 6.) 



Lobelias. Several of them, when well treated, form 

 pretty flowering plants ; they are principally herbaceous. 

 The genus consists of about eighty species; seventy of 

 them are exotics; many of them natives of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, with little flowers of brilliant colours. L. cce- 

 rulea, L, Thunbergii, L. corymbosa, L. pyramiddlis, Z-. 

 erines, and L. illicifolia, are very fine species, of weak 

 growth, but flower freely. (Soil No. 4.) 



fjOnicerajaponica. There is a plant in our collections 

 known by that name, which is now Nintooa longiflora; 

 flowers of a straw colour, but come out white. It has been 

 known to withstand the winter, but does not flower, and is 

 frequently killed entirely. (Soil No. 3.) 



Lophospermum scdndens. This is a magnificent climb- 

 ing soft-wooded shrub, with rosy purple, campanulate flow- 

 ers, which are produced from the axils on the young wood; 

 they bloom from May to September ; leaves large, cordate, 



