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CHOROZEMA SPARTIOIDES. 
ago, and is a plant that commences blossoming about the month of April, and con- 
tinues nearly all the summer. 
This is one of those fine rooted plants which are easily injured, want frequent 
attention in their culture, and require to be managed well, or they are never worth 
growing. It should be potted high in the centre of the pot, in a compost of very 
fibrous and open heath-mould and loam, with the base of the stem, whence the 
roots proceed, left a little exposed. The shoots of the young plants must be kept 
duly shortened, while they are advancing ; for it is a species which, if not thus 
primed, will straggle, become very weak and slender, and have a displeasing appear- 
ance. When the specimens are two years' old, however, the pruning may be almost 
wholly left off, as it is near the extremities of the shoots that the flowers are 
borne. After this time, the plant may be pruned in the winter. It will flourish 
in any light airy greenhouse. 
The species is multiplied, somewhat slowly, by cuttings, which should be taken 
from the branches that do not seem inclined to flower much. If they show any 
disposition to bloom, even after they have formed roots, the flower-buds should be 
timely taken away. It is extremely injudicious, in all cases, to suffer small plants 
to flower. 
Messrs. Young, of the Epsom nursery, furnished the subject of our drawing in 
March, 1841. The wood-cut below gives its habitude. 
