PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



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mediate between that of the stove and greenhouse, and grows freely in any kind of light garden soil. Like many of the 

 tropical A canthads, after flowering, it becomes thin and naked. It propagates freely by cuttings. The young plants 



should be kept in small 

 pots during winter, and re- 

 ceive very little water. In 

 the spring they require to 

 be shifted into a large pot, 

 where they will soon make 

 rapid progress, and pro- 

 duce a succession of large 

 fine blue flowers. — Botani- 

 cal Magazine, t. 4494:. 



Thiebaudia 



SCABKLUSCtTLA. Ekm- 



holclt and Bonpland. A 

 greenhouse evergreen 

 bush, belonging to the 

 order of Cranberries 

 ( Vaccimacem) . Native 

 of New Granada. Flow- 

 ers crimson, tipped with 

 green. Flowered at Syon. 

 (Fig. 51.) 



A very pretty spreading 

 evergreen shrub with slen- 

 der downy branches, and 

 broad oblong almost cordate 

 triple or quintuple ribbed 

 leaves, slightly downy on 

 the under side. The flow- 

 ers appear at the ends of 

 the branches, in drooping 



cones li inch long, composed of resinous, shining, 

 slightly downy, pink, membranous oblong scales. 

 The corolla is oblong, rather more than half an inch 

 long, hairy, rich crimson, with a clear green tip. 

 The species is nearly related to T. bracteata, and 

 strobilifera, very fine shrubs still to introduce, from 

 which it differs in its hairy flowers and other cir- 

 cumstances. T. pubescens, another species with flow- 

 ers in cones, is a much larger plant, also with smooth, 

 not downy, corollas ; at least such is the case in 

 specimens now before us from Hartweg's Collections. 

 This should form a very useful gay addition to spring shrubs of its class. It was raised at Syon from seeds received from 

 Mr. Purdie. 



