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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



A native of the island of St. Vincent, and more tender than 

 the other species in our stoves, requiring to be plunged con- 

 stantly in the bark-bed, where it should have no water at all 

 during winter. 



Till andsi a Calamifolia. MSS. 



I believe that only three plants of this species are in the 

 kingdom, they were received by the Marchioness of Bute 

 from Brasil, in 1796, with the name of Bonapartea. Of these, 

 one is now in the collection of James Vere, Esq.; another, 

 purchased at the late Mr. Charles Greville's sale, in that 

 of Messrs. Jenkins and Gwyther ; and the third in that of 

 Messrs. Lee and Kennedy * They are all cultivated in pots, 

 on a shelf of the stove, and seem very healthy, but have not 

 yet flowered. As the whole plant consists of a large head of 

 leaves with one central bud, sending out no suckers, it pro- 

 bably can only be increased by seeds, or branches formed 

 under the flower-stalk. 



PONTEDERlLE. 



Philydrum Lanuginosum. Brown Prodr. p. 265 et 

 —Sims in Bot. Mag. n. 783. cum Ic. Garciana Cochinchinensis. 

 Lour. FL Coch. p. 15. 



A curious annual, which grows wild in bogs. The best 

 method of treating it here, is to sow the seeds, about Sep- 

 tember, in pots of rich earth, placed on the front flue of a 

 stove, and kept very moist. In March transplant the young 

 seedlings into separate pots, which as the plants advance, 

 should be plunged in a cistern of water ; and at the end of 



* A great number of young plants has been lately introduced (Sept. 1814) 

 from France, by Mr. Joseph Knight, of Little Chelsea. 



