CHAP. LXXXV. 



SCROPHULARIA CEiE. 



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requires a dry sheltered situation, or to be planted against a wall. It will 

 grow in any common soil, and is readily propagated by cuttings put in in 

 autumn, and protected from the frost by a hand-glass. Price of plants, in 

 the London nurseries, 1.?. 6d. each. A plant at Purser's Cross is 12 ft. 

 high and 15 ft. in diameter; and it has frequently ripened seeds, from which 

 young plants have been raised. 



App. i. Half-hardy Species of Buddies.. 



Buddie* salvifblia Lam. ; Lantana salvifblia Lin., Jac. Sc, 1. t. 28. ; is a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, bearing some resemblance to the common species, but smaller in all its parts. It lias 

 been known to stand out for two or three years together against a wall, without any protection. 



B. paniculata Wall, is a native of Nepal, introduced in 182:3, but not common in collections. 



B. maligna Willd., Jacq. Sc, 1. t. 29., is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, with white flowers, 

 which are produced in August and September. 



B. crlspa Royle Illust, p. 291., is said to be a highly ornamental shrub, found at moderate elevations 

 in the Himalayas. 



App. I. Half hardij ligneous Plants of the Order Scrophularidcea?. 



Hal/eria. lucfdn L., Bot. Mag., t. 1744., and our Jig. 1125., is a shrub, a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, with shining leaves, and scarlet flowers, which are produced from June to August. A plant has 

 stood out in front of the stove at Kew since 1826. 



Mnurdndya. semperfldrens Jacq., Bot. Mag., t. 460. ; and M. Barclayhna Bot. Reg., t. 1108. ; are 



Mexican climbers, well known for the beauty of their flowers ; and which, in warm situations, grow 



and flower freely against a wall in the open air, and may be protected during winter ; or seeds, which 



they produce in abundance, may be sown early in the season in a hot-bed, and 



. v . ,.r.\ the plants brought forward in pots, and in due time turned out. 



Mimulus glutinbsus Willd., Bot. Mag., t. 354., is an evergreen shrub, a native 

 > of California, with rich orange-coloured flowers, which would, in all probability, 



thrive against a conservative wall with very little protection. 



Ant/iocercis v/'sebsa R. Br., Bot. Reg., 1. 1624., is a native of New Holland, in- 

 troduced in 1822. It is a handsome evergreen shrub, with 

 dark green leaves,and rather numerous, large, white flowers, / " 



which are produced in May and June. It is easily propa. JJ 



gated by cuttings, on whichaccount it well deserves a place 

 in a warm sheltered border £ during the summer season, or 

 against a conservative wall. 



Calceolaria integrijblia L., Bot. Reg., t. 744. ; C. rugdsa 

 Fl. Per., Hook. Ex! Fl., 29.; and C. sessilis Hort., see our Jigs. 

 1127,1128.; and many other suffruticose hybrids; stand 

 through the winter, as border shrubs, in many of the warmer 

 parts of Devonshire and Cornwall ; and with due care, in the 

 neighbourhood of London, they may be kept alive on a con- i i 90 

 servative wall. 

 1 1 9^ Ver6nica decussata Ait., Bot. Mag., t. 242, and our Jigs. 1129, 1130., is an ever- 



ll - * green shrub, a native of the Falkland Islands, which grows to the height of 1 ft. 



or 2 ft, and produces its white or bluish white flowers from June to August, It is very easily protected, 

 either at the foot of a wall or on rockwork, and stands out without any protection in the Isle of Port- 

 land, where it grows to the height of 4 ft. or 5 ft. 





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