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succeeded by white berries ; roseum, with rose-coloured blos- 

 soms. These plants have not much more than their sweet 

 scent to recommend them to notice. 



NIEBEMBERGIA. 



Gen. Char. {Pentandria Monogynia) Corolla salver-shaped, 

 five-lobed and five-rayed, with a very slender, cylindrical tube. 



A beautiful genus, nearly allied to Petunia, and very or- 

 namental in the greenhouse, as the species flower profusely, 

 and look well suspended from the roof in ornamental 

 baskets ; the species are calycina, filicaulis, gracilis, and 

 intermedia; they are from South America, but will bear 

 planting out into the garden in the summer, where they 

 look best in baskets on a lawn ; if planted in a bed they 

 look remarkably well, as, if kept to grow quite low, they will 

 soon form a mass of flower, and should be pegged down, for 

 the lateral shoots continue to grow when so treated. New 

 plants must be raised in sand every year by taking cuttings 

 in September, and keeping them in the frame or greenhouse. 

 The soil should be loam and peat. 



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