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DICENTRA (DIELYTRA) SPECTABILIS. 



JAPAN DICENTRA. 



Natural Or d — Fumariacrce Juss : 

 Class Diadelphia Linn : Ord. Hexandria. 



Synonymes. — Dielytra spectabilis Bork. HooU from ,D?s,two elytron a 

 spur. Dielytra De Cand, Prod — Vol. 1, P. 126. Fumaria spectabilis — 

 Linn: Cysticapnos spectabilis — Corydalis spectabilis — Pers. 



POP. DESCRIPTION. 



Herbaceous Perennial, from China and Japan, flowered first time in 

 the vicinity of Philadelphia, during the past Winter, imported by a 

 Nurseryman of the city, from London, where it flowered in the winter of 

 1848 at Messrs. Knight and Perry's, King's Road, Chelsea; introduced 

 previously to the Garden of the London Horticultural Society's Gar- 

 den at Chiswick, by Mr. Fortune, who observed it in the Fairy Gar- 

 dens of the Mandarins, about Chusan, where it is much cared for and 

 called by them, the Red and White Moutan Flower, in their vernacu- 

 lar Hong-pak-moutan-wha — closely allied to the paeonia — the 

 plant, now past bloom, having been forced, may be seen at the Con- 

 servatory of Jas. Dundas, Esq. 



Cultivation. — For forcing requires a 4 or (> inch pot with rich soil 

 — loam and leaf mould, with a little sand — moderate heat in December 

 and January — will flower in February and March — in open ground in 

 May. Not yet proved to be hardy in Britain, but must prove so in the 

 vicinity of Philadelphia ; as is, its companion Weigdia rosea, in- 

 troduced from the same locality by the same collector, and which, 

 with Forsythia viridissima, has proved a desirable object, for the Con- 

 servatory in early Spring, and even throughout the Winter when 

 judiciously managed. We shall have its capability of enduring frosts 

 tested at the first opportunity. It proves a most desirable plant for rooms, 

 and may be easily taken care of by allowing the roots to dry off, after 

 flowering as we do some of the Pceonias, so well known. The roots 

 will continue dormant until at a proper season they may be again ex- 

 cited by heat,fresh soil and water-a Russian Botanist first introduced it to 

 the notice of the Great Linnseus, probably by forwarding a dried spe- 

 cimen. 



Loudon's Tomb at Kensal Green. — P. MacKenzie, in the London G. 

 Chronicle, complains that Loudon's Tomb is concealed in Kensal 

 Green Cemetery, or at least not prominent. Why should we com- 

 plain that the mortal remains of the illustrious are hidden — 'tis well 

 that they are. If they have been illustrious as human benefactors, 

 their memory lives in the recollection of the good and wise. What 

 I good man cares to have his tomb gazed upon by idle cockneys, Lun- 

 n chers, as they term them at Kew 1 — seekers after the showy and glar- c 6 

 fi) ing things of this vain world. However, every one to his taste. G\ 



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