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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



grow ; but, like other fine things comparatively slow of increase, its cultivation, from the 

 large demand for it, until it gets more plentiful, will be in a great measure, no doubt, 

 confined to pots. There appears to have been some little confusion betwixt this and one or 

 two other species. For instance, Loudon, in his " Hortus Britannicus/' gives a Spiraea 

 Palmata bearing red flowers as introduced from China in 1823, and which has been supposed 

 by some to be identical with the present subject, which is evidently not the case, as this 

 is a deep crimson-flowered plant from Japan. Neither can it be identical with the North 

 American S. Palmata, of Linnaeus, which bears rose-coloured flowers. The plant was 

 introduced by Messrs. Standish and Noble, of Bagshot, through the indefatigable traveller 

 and collector, Mr. Fortune. 



