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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
A plant at Chatsworth, turned out after this manner about two years ago, produced a 
few good sized flowers, but tliey were much inferior to some produced the same 
season, on a plant about the same size, planted in a border in the greenhouse. No 
plant bears the knife better than this, and perhaps scarcely any other plant is so 
simply propagated. A one-year-old shoot taken off and the wood separated nearly 
from the eyes — ^^say to within a quarter of an inch — and these put into a pot of soil 
and the pot plunged into a little heat, will each soon send np a strong shoot, if not 
over watered. A frame, where cucumbers or melons are growing, is an excellent 
place for them. They may also be successfully and easily propagated from cuttings 
made in the usual way, that is, by taking each cutting oif at a joint, and putting the 
cut end in the soil ; each way they succeed best with a little bottom heat. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR APRIL. 
CLASS I PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONE^). 
THE RANUNCULUS TRIBE (rANUNCULACE^) HELLEBORES. 
Delphinium Barlowii. This Delphinium presents to the eye the most 
gorgeous mass of deep lapis lazuli blue that Dr. Lindley is acquainted with in the 
vegetable kingdom. It is quite impossible to describe the effects of several plants 
growing in a cluster, and well backed up by species whose colours harmonise with 
the blue. The drawing was made from Messrs. Roliison's collection of hardy 
herbaceous plants, where the plant bloomed throughout the whole of summer and 
autumn, and it is said to be of easy cultivation. Bot. Reg. 1944. 
THE FIGWORT TRIBE (sCROPHULARIACES). 
Pentstemon breviflorus. Short-flowered Pentstemon. A Californian 
perennial raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds picked off 
some of Mr. Douglas's dried specimens. In its native country it appears to be a 
stout branching plant, bearing a profusion of small white and purple flowers ; but 
when cultivated, it has been found so tender and difficult to manage, that little of 
its native beauty is developed. It is hardy, and grows best in peat and loam, 
producing its flowers in September; increased from cuttings. Bot. Reg. 1946. 
THE poppy tribe (pA PA VERACES ) . 
Chryseis compacta. Dwarf Chryseis. The generic name Eschscholtzia 
it has been thought necessary to cancel, and substitute in its room the name 
Chryseis. The present species differs from E. Californica and E. crocea, now C. 
California and C. crocea^ in having a more dwarf compact habit, the segments of 
the leaves very slightly toothed, instead of deeply lobed, and in the flowers being 
far smaller. It is a most beautiful flower, not much inferior to^ C. crocea. Bat. 
Reg. 1948. 
