CHELO'NE BARB ATA. 



SCARLET CHELONE. 

 Class. Order. 



DIDYHAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Natural Order. 



BIGNONIACE^E. 



No. 81. 



The term Chelone is derived from a similar word 

 in the Greek language, signifying a tortoise. Bar- 

 bata, bearded. 



This interesting herbaceous plant with its delicate 

 slender stems, supporting a multitude of beautiful 

 pendent scarlet flowers, is surpassed in elegance but 

 by few subjects of similar magnitude. It is never 

 intrusive by its foliage or stems, and simply requires 

 the support of a thin willow shoot, as a guard against 

 occasional winds. It is the Chelone Ruellioides of 

 Andrews' s Repository. 



It should be planted in a dry warm situation and 

 southerly aspect; and in severe frosts should be 

 covered with a hand glass or coarse straw. It may 

 be propagated by occasional divisions of the root, 

 which is best effected late in the spring. 



A certain method to prevent disappointment, is to 

 take cuttings of the young shoots as early as they 

 will admit of it. These may be planted under a 

 hand glass, and should be potted after they are well 

 rooted. When frosts set in, give them the protec- 

 tion of the cold frame, and in April they may be 

 turned into the borders. 



21 Hoit. Kevv. 2, v. 4, 7. 



