LOBE'LIA FUL'GENS. 



FULGENT LOBELIA. 



Class. Order. 



PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Natural Or tier. 



CAMPANULACEjK. 



No. 73. 



This genus was named after Matthias de Lobel, 

 see No. 61. Fulgens, from the Latin, bright, very 

 conspicuous. 



It may be conceived that every individual who 

 feels an interest in the beauty of flowers, and in the 

 possession of plants, bearing evidence, by their lux- 

 uriance, of superior cultivation, will be highly gra- 

 tified in being informed how this magnificent herba- 

 ceous Lobelia may be produced in the highest pos- 

 sible perfection and splendour. 



Mr. Sabine observes that 'it has lately been found 

 to bear the severity of our winter, by bekg immers- 

 ed in water, as an aquatic ; and with this treatment 

 has flowered well by the sides of ponds and in cis- 

 terns ; but it was reserved for the skill of Mr. W. 

 Hedges to discover a mode of culture under which 

 this beautiful exotic has assumed a character of mag- 

 nificence which will hereafter make it one of the 

 most conspicuous decorations of our flower gardens.' 



Mr. Hedges, in a communication which is printed 

 in the second volume of the Horticultural Society's 

 Transactions, directs the offsets to be divided in Oc- 

 tober, put into small pots, protected by a cold frame 



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