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PENTSTEMON GENTIANOIDES ; var. SPLENDENS. 
exclusive notice of such as can only grow a single sort. It is partly with the 
view of promoting that object that we here bring it forward ; since, in some places, 
it is of the greatest importance that the best of everything should be cultivated. 
Latterly, the management of P. gentianoides and its varieties, as potted plants, 
has fallen into disuse ; and they are chiefly grown for the flower-borders. In 
efllscting this, they are propagated, as Petunias, &c., by cuttings in the autumn, 
and, being placed in small pots, are kept in cold frames, free from frost, till it is 
time to plant them out. They should, however, receive one or two shifts in the 
early part of the spring, and have the points of their shoots several times removed. 
In this way, the variety before us can be perpetuated to any extent ; and it 
deserves to be liberally provided for all sorts of gardens. 
