8 AGROSTEMMA BUNGEANA. 
Immediately after the accompanying drawing- was taken, we received a beautiful 
specimen of this plant, with six fine expanded flowers, from Mr. David Smith, of 
the Hull Botanic Garden, who observes — I received this very showy and interest- 
ing plant through the kindness of Mr. Booth, proprietor of the Flotbeck Nursery, 
Hamburgh. I have found it of easy cultivation, preferring a light, fresh, loamy 
soil ; some specimens, grown in 48-sized pots, attained the height of from 3 to 4 
feet;, and kept in flower in a cool greenhouse for nearly two months. So late in the 
summer as July, I turned a plant of it out into a south border, and it showed no 
less than forty flowers by September, but the weather became very cold and they did 
not expand. When planted out in May, I have no doubt of its proving one of the 
most showy, half-hardy plants lately introduced." 
" The generic name Agrostemma is taken from Agros, a field, and Stemon, a 
crown; alluding to the beauty of the flowers, which were formerly made into 
crowns or garlands. — G. Don" 
