218 Floricultujal and Botanical Notices 



last autumn, in Mr. Glendenning's collection, Chiswick, 

 from whose plants the drawing was made. In England it is 

 cultivated as a greenhouse annual, sowing the seeds in July, 

 and keeping the plants in a greenhouse where they bloom the 

 following season : perhaps it would require the same treat- 

 ment with us, though it may prove a half-hardy annual, if 

 seeds are sown in March, in a hotbed. The plants should 

 be frequently topped, to make them bushy and compact. 

 The best soil is a sandy peat. {^Bot. Reg.^ March.) 

 Schrophulariacem. 



PENTSrEMON 



^entXanoides var diaphinum Lindl. Transparent Gentian-like Pentstemon. A half-hardy per- 

 ennial ; growin? two or three feet high ; with scarlet flowers ; appearing from July to September ; 

 a native of Mexico ; increased by seeds or cuttings ; grown in very good rich soil. Bot. Reg. 1845, 

 1. 16. 



A fine variety of the beautiful Gentian-like pentstemon, 

 well worth introduction; the flowers are scarlet, with the 

 under side of the tube so colorless as to be semi-transparent. 

 It is a free grower, becoming slightly woody at the base of 

 the stem, and flowers freely all the autumn. The P. ^entiaw- 

 oides^ as well as this variety, should find a place in every 

 good garden. They may be raised from seeds. {Bot. Reg.^ 

 March.) 



^ola7idcecB. 



lOCHRO'MA Benth. 



tubul6sa JSen^A. Tubular lochrome. A greenhouse shrub; growing four feet high; with blue 

 flowers ; appearing in August ; a native of Mexico ; increased by cuttings ; grown in sandy loam 

 and peat. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 20. 



Syn : HabrothAmnus cydneus Lindl. 



A very handsome deciduous shrub, with terminal clusters 

 of dark blue tubular flowers, sometimes numbering as many 

 as thirty in each ; and, when in full bloom, very showy. It 

 is a hardy greenhouse plant, growing very freely, and re- 

 quiring to be rather stunted in the pot to make it flower 

 freely. The best way to manage it is to plant it out in the 

 open ground the first season, and to take it up in the autumn, 

 when well rooted, by keeping it rather close a week or two, 

 to place it in a cool dry place for the winter. In March, cut 

 it back freely and top-dress the soil; brmg it forward slowly 

 and water abundantly a? it comes into bloom in July. It is 

 readily increased by cuttings in sand. {Bot. Reg., April..) 



CE'STRUM 



aurantiacum Lindl. Orange-colored Cestrum. A greenhouse plant; growing four feet high; 

 with orange-colored flowers ; appearing in August ; a native of Guatemala; increased by cuttings; 

 grown in any good soil. Bot. Reg, 1845, t. 22. 



