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LANTANA CROCEA. 
open border through the summer ; and it will probably need no more heat than is 
furnished to a greenhouse, to preserve it in winter. Plants that were placed out 
in a border at Messrs. Young's last year, succeeded most perfectly, and bloomed in 
great abundance. 
A knowledge of this fact will, we should think, induce culturists to try the 
species in a lower temperature than that of a stove, and further, to make use of it in 
decorating the principal flower-borders, or in filling a bed or two of the flower- 
garden. Though it attains, in a stove, the height of three or four feet, and 
rambles a little in habit ; when placed out of doors, it acquires a singular dwarf- 
ness and robustness, and its elegant parti-coloured blossoms will give it a 
remarkable suitability for planting in groups. 
Cuttings, taken off in the summer, and struck by the aid of bottom-heat, will 
constitute established plants ere the winter commences ; and, we have no doubt, 
would live without injury in a cool greenhouse. 
Lantana is the ancient name of the Viburnum, which the species are like in 
the aspect of their flower-heads. 
