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and besides these there are angustifolia, Cavanillesii, Jlava, 

 hirtella, laevigata, leiantha, and longiflora, all beautiful plants 

 for the greenhouse, in which they produce a good effect. 

 B. triphylla, so called from having three leaves together in 

 a whorl, is a particularly handsome plant from its fine scarlet 

 flowers growing in large heads, shaped like the trumpet- 

 honeysuckle ; the stem attains a height of two feet or more. 

 It is a hardy greenhouse plant, and will bear putting out 

 very well, making a very beautiful bed ; those plants which 

 have been thus exposed are said also to keep well in a cool 

 frame in winter, so that more specimens may be kept in this 

 way than there is room for in the greenhouse, where space is 

 so valuable at that season. Cuttings should be struck in loam 

 and sand, and placed in a hotbed frame ; suckers may also 

 be taken from the root ; these plants require plenty of water 

 in summer. When frost is expected, some of them which 

 are still in flower may be carefully taken out of the bed with 

 a ball of earth to their roots, and potted in good, rich soil, 

 when they will flower for some time in the greenhouse. 



GARDENIA. (Cape Jessamine.) 

 Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Segments of the calyx 



