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suited for the conservatory than the American garden 

 under any circumstances. But whatever situation they 

 may be found best adapted for, any care or attention 

 they may receive will be amply repaid by the great 

 beauty of their flowers. 



Not one of their least valuable qualities is the 

 tendency they evince to produce their flowers when in 

 a young state. We had several plants of ciliatum in 

 bloom when but twenty months from the seed, and 

 only three inches high. 



As regards their general cultivation, the conditions 

 we have insisted on, in our treatise on "American 

 Plants," will equally apply to them, with this addition, 

 that, if possible, situations having a greater amount of 

 atmospheric moisture should be chosen for them. In 

 bogs drained two or three feet deep they would succeed 

 well. But it must be remembered that, while they 

 will require a moist and cool subsoil, it must not arise 

 from stagnant moisture. In the damp climate of a 

 great part of Ireland, on the southern and western 

 shores of England, and at the base of the mountains 

 on the western coast of Scotland situations where 

 there is always a large amount of atmospheric 

 humidity, with little frost these beautiful plants will 

 doubtless succeed well. 



To gentlemen already possessing young plants we 

 recommend the following course of treatment: 

 Procure a quantity of peat soil containing a large 

 amount of vegetable matter, as it is necessary that it 

 should be very rich, to which add about one-fifth 

 silver sand ; well mix it, and place a layer of it about 



