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POTENTILLA HOPWOODIANA. 
with propriety, we are assured that it will not speedily be eradicated or suffered 
to degenerate. 
It was raised about the year 1829 from an artificial impregnation between 
P. formosa and P. recta. The flowers will be observed to partake of the colour of 
the former species, which is scarcely less beautiful, and merits very general atten- 
tion. Although, during the period which has elapsed between the date just specified 
and the present time, P. Hopwoodiana has become common in gardens, there are 
many who are yet strangers to its strikingly interesting character, and with such, 
it is hoped, this recommendation will have due influence. 
All that is required of the cultivator of this plant is, to furnish it with a mode- 
rately rich loamy soil, and administer a large quantity of water in the summer, 
should the weather render this measure needful. In some situations, and duriDg 
particularly severe winters, a covering of dry litter may be requisite for the roots ; 
but, under ordinary conditions, this will usually be superfluous. It is rather too 
tall for collective display in beds, but where high-growing plants are wished for, or 
the site admits of their being planted, a large solitary specimen, but more especially 
a small group, produces a magnificent effect at the time of flowering. 
Propagation may be performed in the early part of the autumn, either by 
taking up the entire roots and dividing them, or by separating the offsets. It is 
desirable that this operation should be attended to in the autumnal months, 
because, if not parted till the spring, transplantation then checks them so consider- 
ably, that they seldom flower finely in the succeeding summer. A removal of the 
old plants every two or three years to a different spot is likewise beneficial. 
Our drawing of this species was taken in the nursery of Messrs. Young, 
Epsom, in the month of August, 1838. It commences flowering about the latter 
end of June, and continues in perfection till the middle of September. 
It is named after the individual by whom it was originally raised. 
