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succeeds well with me against a south wall, where it flowers freely, and 

 though inferior to H. fasciculatus, its foliage and habit are both better. 

 Beside it, on the same wall, Jocroma tubulosa is ten feet high, and coming 

 into abundant bloom; its foliage and habit are, however, weedy, and de- 

 tract from its value, though its porcelain blue flowers are very interesting. 

 Can any cultivator give mc hints respecting the management of Brugman- 

 sia sanguinea, against a conservative walH I planted one in consequence 

 of Mr. Paxton's encomiums on that at Chatsworth, but hitherto without 

 any success; as, though it has grown immensely, and fills the recess 

 allotted to it, its appearance is that of a rank gigantic weed, bearing few 

 flowers, and those of an unusually dull hue ; would root pruning check its 

 luxuriance, and cause it to bloom freely ? [You have got the wrong plant.] 

 Would that beautiful fancy Geranium Unique succeed against a wall, and 

 attain a height of eight or nine feet, if protected in winter? [No doubt.] 

 I am glad that a discussion on the merits of Plumbago Larpentae has com- 

 menced, and I hope all cultivators will record their experience of its merits. 

 Only two days ago I was informed by a respectable nurseryman that a bed 

 of it was likely to succeed admirably in the garden of a noble lady in the 

 east of this county ; there, however, every plant succeeds tbat is capable 

 of cultivation. If a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry 

 produced at one time more than 4,000 flowers, it must be valuable. Has 

 Tacsonia manicata yet been figured? [No.] — [Id., 1849, p. 470.) 



Lagerstrcemia indica. — This very beautiful stove plant is so seldom seen 

 in perfection that I am induced to send an account of one we now have in 

 bloom. It stands about nine feet high, measures about six feet through 

 the centre, and has about 150 spikes of delicate purplish-lilac flowers fully 

 expanded ; some of the spikes are nine inches to one foot long, and as 

 they hang in graceful semi-pendulous carelessness, they present an aggre- 

 gate of beauty seldom witnessed. Lagerstrcemia indica is a free bloomer, 

 under judicious treatment. I have bloomed plants of about eighteen inches 

 high, but they should be three or four years old. They require to be win- 

 tered in a cool house, and started in a plant stove early in spring, after 

 pruning them in hard, reducing the old ball, and potting them in a mixture 

 of sandy loam and well rotted dung or leaf-mould. When in bloom they 

 may be removed to the conservatory, and will last a month. A little 

 manure-water will assist them very much after they show flower. — {Id., 

 1849, p. 501.) 



On the Cultivation of Hardy Bulbs. — So far as my opportunities have 

 enabled me to judge, I believe there are comparatively few places in Eng- 

 land where this beautiful tribe of plants are extensively or well grown. 

 With the exception of the late Dean of Manchester, who was distinguished 

 as a botanist for his knowledge of Amaryllide?e in general, as well as for 

 his success as an amateur grower of a vast collection, there are none who 

 have given bulbs that attention which ihey deserve, and which has been 

 freely lavished on other families of plants, if not of less merit as objects of 

 scientific study, certainly of less beauty and elegance of form. I have 

 therefore much pleasure in laying before your readers a few observations 



