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Under pot cultivation; it is a fine object, excelling even the 

 old and beautiful C. pyramidalis, a plant too seldom seen in 

 collections. Its treatment is precisely the same as for that 

 species, of which we have given some good directions from 

 the Gardener'' s Chronicle, (Vol. XI. p. 230.) The plants, 

 however, grow much more freely than that species, and they 

 have the very valuable habit not possessed by that, of blooming 

 freely when in very small sized pots, with stems not ex- 

 ceeding a foot in height. Plants raised from otfsets in the 

 spring, and properly treated, will bloom finely in the autumn. 



If grown in the open ground, no other care is required than 

 to occasionally renew the plants from offsets, giving it the 

 same soil as other species, and protecting it in the winter with 

 a light covering of leaves, old haulm, or strawy manure. If 

 cultivated in pots, the old plants may be wintered in frames, 

 or the greenhouse, and towards the spring, the offsets which 

 spring abundantly from the old stem should be taken off and 

 potted in four inch pots, in a good compost of loam and leaf 

 mould ; in a few weeks, they should be shifted into six inch 

 pots, and again, in a few weeks more, to ten inch pots, in 

 which they may remain to flower. They should be freely 

 watered during summer, and probably a weak solution of 

 guano would be beneficial. In August, they will begin to 

 bloom, and will continue in flower until October, during which 

 period, they will form the finest ornament for the balcony, the 

 verandah, or even the lawn. 



Art. V. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New Plants, 

 figured in foreign periodicals ; tvith Remarks on those re- 

 cently introduced to, or originated in, American gardens, and 

 additional inform,ation upon plants already in cultivation. 



Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery. 

 Each number containing from six to eight plates ; with additional miscel- 

 laneous information relative to new plants. In monthly numbers ; 3*. 

 plain, 35. Gd. colored. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. Each 

 number containing four colored plates. Monthly, 25. &d. each. Edited 

 by J. Paxton, Gardener to the Duke of Devonshire. 



