celebrated travellers Humboldt and Bonp- 

 land: it is perennial, and produces its 

 flowers, which are of an inimitably brilliant 

 scarlet, from July till the frost cuts them 

 off. It should be kept in a pot in a shel- 

 tered place in winter, but in spring ought 

 to be planted in a border. 



It is easily increased by separating the 



