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COMBRETUM GR ANDIFLORUM. 
requires a tolerably high temperature, with a moderate share of atmospheric 
moisture. The difference occasioned in the aspect of P. coccinea by variety of 
treatment would be quite amazing, w^ere it not accordant with general experience. 
Kept in an ordinary pot, with a poor soil, rarely shifted even at the end of the 
year, and placed in a dry stove, it grows and blooms, it is true, but never realizes 
its genuine luxuriance or beauty. Planted out in a bed of rich earth, and favoured 
with a congenially moist heat, it gains, on the other hand, a splendour which is 
truly astonishing. And we believe C. grandifiorum alters similarly under the like 
influences. 
It ought to have a compost of good loam, leaf-soil, and heath-mould, with a 
little sand. The two former should constitute the body of it. An Orchidaceous 
house, which is kept warm and moist, would be an excellent situation for both 
this plant and P. coccinea ; and, by the appropriateness of their shade, and the 
richness of their splendid blossoms, when associated with those of such plants as 
StepJianotis and Allamanda^ and Ipomoea Learii, they would contribute a delightful 
attraction to such a structure. C . grandifiorum can be multiplied by cuttings. 
We have no knowledge of the existence of a previous plate. 
