Part II. CALANDRINIA—CALLA. l6i 



dividing the bulbs, in July or August, replanting them at dis- 

 tances of four or six inches apart. 



CALANDEINIA XSMBElSLA-tA..— Brilliant C. 



A NATIVE of Chili, with reddish, much branched, little stems, 

 half-shrubby at the base, and rarely growing more than three or 

 four inches high. For vivid beauty and brilliancy of colour 

 there is nothing to equal it in cultivation, the flowers being of a 

 dazzling magenta crimson, attaining to an almost inconceivable 

 glow, yet soft and refined. In the evenings and in cloudy 

 weather it shuts up, and nothing is then seen but the tips of the 

 flowers. It does very well in any fine sandy, peaty, or other 

 open earth, is a hardy perennial on dry soils and in well-drained 

 rockwork, and looks best in small beds, but may be used with 

 advantage as a broad edging to large ones, and seems to live 

 longest in chinks in well-made rockwork. It is as readily 

 raised from seed as the common Wallflower, either in the 

 open air in fine sandy soil, or in pots. As it does not like 

 transplantation, except when done very carefully, the best way 

 for those who wish to use it for very neat and bright beds in the 

 summer flower-garden is to sow a few grains in each small pot in 

 autumn, keep them in dry sunny pits or frames during the winter, 

 and then turn the plants out without much disturbance into the 

 beds in the end of April or beginning of May. As its beauty is 

 concealed during dull or rainy weather, this may prove a dravy- 

 back to its use in the flower-garden, but by employing it as a 

 ' groundwork for some of the handsome Echeverias, and other neat 

 succulents now beginning to be so extensively employed in good 

 flower-gardens, this defect may not be so noticeable. When the 

 plants are raised every year, they flower more continuously than 

 old established- specimens. It may also be treated as an annual, 

 sown in fi-ames very early in spring, but should in every case be 

 associated with diminutive plants like itself. 



CALIA PALUSTEIS.— ^(7^ Arutn. ' 



More beauty than any native bog-plant affords results from 

 planting in boggy places this small trailing Arad, which has pretty 

 little spathes of the colour of those of its relative, the Ethiopian 

 Lily. It is thoroughly hardy, and though often grown in water, 

 likes a moist bog much better. In a bog, or muddy place, shaded 

 by trees to some extent, it will grow larger in flower and .leaf, 



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