No, 290. 
DIOSMA LATIFOLIA. 
Class, Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, in- 
troduced about the year 1789. It is a large 
growing sort, and will sometimes attain the 
height of five or six feet. The flowers are 
fore they open, the buds are of a fine pink 
A 
It is extremely difficult to. propagate by 
cuttings; y I 
duced here, we are dependant for increase 
upon the precarious supplies which now 
and then reach us from its native country. 
Being not at all tender, it needs no other 
protection than that of a cold greenhouse, 
that is just kept from freezing. The soil 
should be loam and peat. The leaves have 
a powerful smell, which is common to many 
of this genus. 
