38 On Acclimatizing Plants at Bid, in East Lothian. 



earth, and continues a fine, large, bushy plant; it is now 

 (June 29), in full flower. It produces ripe seed, which I sow in 

 a pot in spring ; the plants soon appear, they begin to flower 

 at two years old. Coronilla Valentina, a Spanish plant, several 

 years ago, was planted in the open air, under a south wall, 

 remaining in its pot. It endures the winter and flowers freely, 

 dispersing its pleasing fragrance to some distance. This plant 

 has produced an ounce of seed, which ripened in July, 1825 ; 

 some of it I sowed in a small pot ; it soon came up, the seed- 

 lings began to flower at ten months old, and the flowers are 

 stronger in colour than on the old plant. I reckon it a good 

 method to revive plants by seed at times, for the flowers so 

 obtained are more perfect in colour and shape. Coronilla 

 glauca, a native of the south of France, has endured several 

 vvinters in poor dry places under a wall, and flowers well, 

 exhaling an agreeable perfume, and producing ripe seed in 

 abundance in July. One plant of it which I obtained from 

 cuttings taken from a seedling, is unusually large and strong, 

 full seven feet high ; it is perhaps a variety of larger growth. 



Senecio lanceus,* a native of the Cape of Good Hope, I put 

 out under a south wall, in poor dry soil, in the spring of 1816. 

 The same plant has endured every winter with no other 

 protection ; its root is grown very strong ; it is, however, 

 killed down to the ground in winter ; in spring, it shoots up 



* It may be right to record here, that last year I planted out Senecio Ilicifblius 

 among Senecio lanceus ; both species were flowering together, and the self-sown 

 seeds of S. lanceus have produced a distinct variety, with leaves very like those 

 of S. Ilicifolius, but of different texture and quality, they flourish like those of 

 S. lanceus, but are larger ; it has not produced seeds yet, though flowering plenti- 

 fully, and it may be a mule. Last year I collected one ounce of seeds, ripened 

 in the open border, from Senecio Ilicifolius. 



