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COLUMNEA SCHIEDIANA. 
Messrs. Rollissoii do not give their specimens quite so much encouragement, and 
subject tliem in winter to the comparatively dry atmospliere of a house with a heat 
intermediate between that of 
the greenhouse and stove, in 
order to tlirow them into 
flower during summer and 
autumn. 
But we should advise that 
this plant be neither culti- 
vated in pots nor in soil, but 
placed in rustic baskets of 
wood, filled with sphagnum, 
decayed wood, the fibrous 
part of heath soil, and similar 
vegetable matters, and sus- 
pended from the roof of the 
house, as is done with Or- 
chidacejB. So treated, the 
shoots would hang down over 
the sides of the baskets, and 
add much to the interest of 
a collection. Some idea of 
the effect produced may be 
gained from tlie woodcut annexed, which shows the plant depending around a 
porcelain vase, into which the pot containing it is supposed to have been inserted. 
Nothing can increase more readily than this species by cuttings, and we expect 
shortly to see it in every garden where stove plants are grown. 
Plumier applied the generic appellation in honour of Fabius Columna, as he is 
usually called, or Fabio Colonna, of the noble family of Colonna, in Italy, and the 
author of some botanical works in the seventeenth century. 
