figured in the London Flor. and Bot, Magazines. 221 



Mr. Paxton states, that although a hardy green-house plant, it 

 requires that " nicety in its management, without which it does not 

 grow or flower freely." It is a very beautiful plant, and highly 

 desirable. (Pax. Mag. Bot.., March.) 

 Euphorhidcea:. 



EVVTIO'RBIA 

 fulg^ns Karw. Fulgent Euphorbia. A stove shrub ; growing three or four feet high ; with 

 brilliant scarlet tiowers ; appearing in March and April; propagated by cuttings; culti- 

 vated in sandy heatli mould and loam ; a native of iNIexico. Pax. ftlag. Bot. 



See our II. p. 416, where a description of this species is given, 

 copied from a communication in the Gardener''s Magazine, 

 by Mr. F. Rauch, during a tour in Germany; but we notice it 

 again, as it has not been previously figured in any of the botanical 

 or floricultural pubhcations in Britain. It flowered for the first 

 time in England last November, in the nursery of Messrs. Lu- 

 combe, Pince & Co., of Exeter, who furnished the specimen 

 from which the drawing was taken. Its beauty is not in the 

 bractes, as in the Poinsettm pulcherrima Gra., and many species 

 of Euphoxhia, but in the flowers, which are produced in axillary 

 clusters upon all the terminal shoots, and which are of a most vivid 

 scarlet color. The terminal leaves are of a different color from 

 the lower ones, being " shaded with a pink or bluish color, or 

 mottled with a faint blue upon a pui-phsh ground." Mr. Pax- 

 ton remarks, that to convey an idea of its beauty it is only ne- 

 cessary to add " that, in general effect, it greatly surpasses the 

 well known E. splendens, even when in its highest perfection." 

 It thrives in a high temperature, and is propagated with facility 

 from cuttings. [Pax. Mag. Bot., JMarch.) 



'Balsamindcece. 



TROP/E'OLUII 

 tricoMrum Sirt. Three-rolored Tropsoluni. A pretty climbing plant; with scarlet and 

 purple flowers ; appearing in the spring and summer; projiagated by the division of the 

 root and by seeds; a native of Valparaiso. Bol. Reg., 1935. 



Somewhat in general appearance like the T. brachyceras, no- 

 ticed at p. 175. The stems are very slender, the leaves peltate, 

 five or six parted, and correspond in size to the tiny branches, 

 as well as the flowers. When first introduced, and for some 

 time after its arrival, it was with great difficulty made to flourish, 

 and but faintly showed the great beauty " that every one knows 

 to be its attribute; but the skill of English gardeners has so com- 

 pletely overcome the difficulties of its growth and management, 

 that nothing is now more common than to see large pieces of trel- 

 lage covered with hundreds of its gay, scarlet, and purple flow- 

 ers." How much do we wish that it might be cultivated as 

 easily and as generally in our gardens! The English amateurs 

 and gardeners, when it is grown in pots, display its graceful habit 

 and lovely flowers, by training it to wires, made into some fanciful 

 shape, and fixed firmly in the pots. Would it not be worth 

 while for some of our wealthy amateurs, those who value flowers 



