NERIUM OLEANDER; var. TANGLE. 
(Striped-flowered Oleander.) 
Class, 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
APOCYNACE^, 
Generic Character.— Ca?^'.^? five-cleft. Corolla sal- 
ver-shaped ; throat crowned by lacerated multifid 
segments ; segments of the limb twisted, unequal- 
sided. Filaments inserted into the middle of the tube. 
Anthers sagittate, armed, cohering by their middle to 
the stigma. Ovaria two. Style one, filiform, dilated at 
top ; stigma obtuse. Hypogynous scales wanting ; but 
there are toothlets at the bases of the calyx, outside 
the corolla. Follicles cylindrical. 
Specific Character.' — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Leaves lanceolate, three in a whor], veiny beneath. 
Corolla with trifid or tricuspidate segments.— Don'^ 
Gard. and Botany. 
Var. Tangle, — Floivers oi a rich, criinsony sanguine 
hue, beautifully and various striped with white and 
pink like a Carnation, semi-double. 
While on a visit to the nursery of Messrs. Lane and Son, nurserymen, Great 
Berkliampstead, Herts, to examine their celebrated garden of Roses, in the spring 
of last year, we met with this extremely beautiful Oleander, flowering among 
slightly forced potted Roses, Gloxinias, Fuchsias, &c. Its name, alone, is known 
to Mr. Lane, and while it seems to bespeak it of continental origin, it affords no 
clew to the actual place where it was raised ; so that we really have nothing to 
reveal concerning it, but that it is a most ornamental plant. 
The very pleasing hues of the flowers, so like those of many Carnations, give 
it a peculiar attractiveness. But it is likewise meritorious in blooming while not 
more than nine inches high, and producing particularly large clusters of its noble 
blossoms. 
Along with many other fine varieties of Oleander, it deserves cultivating twice 
as extensively as the majority of greenhouse shrubs. An unfortunate propensity, 
however, to starve these showy objects and to refrain from pruning them, appears 
to pervade cultivators ; and they are, therefore, mostly seen only in the old- 
fashioned greenhouses, crammed amongst the tall specimens till nothing but their 
tops are visible, and thus prevented from exhibiting their truly handsome 
characteristics. 
To grow Oleanders well, they ought to be pruned so as not to get higher than 
two or three feet, and the soil should be a little richer and less compact than that 
generally employed, while the pots ought to be somewhat larger, and the pots and 
