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abundance of shoots, and a splendid head of flowers. This Statice is propagated 
freely by cuttings of the young shoots in a close gentle heat ; and it also produces 
seed, from which it may be increased in great abundance. 
Statice puberula, the puberulous Sea-Lavender, is one of Mr. Webb's acquisitions 
from the Canaries, and is marked, in the last edition of the " Hortus Canta- 
brigiensis," as being hardy. This, however, must be an error, as we have always 
found a slight frost injurious to it ; but very likely in the south of Devonshire or 
Cornwall, when well ripened or in a stinted state, it might resist the winters of that 
part of the country. S. puberula is a compact, dwarf-growing, small-leaved species, 
which forms a very neat specimen, producing abundance of purple and pale-yellow 
or straw-coloured flowers. In cultivation it requires a more porous soil than some 
of the stronger-growing species, and hence sandy, turfy peat must be substituted for 
some of the loam in the compost. For the same reason, it must not be shifted too 
heavily at one time ; neither must it, during the dormant season, be too freely sup- 
plied with water. Small plants should be started in January, in the intermediate 
house, syringing them copiously every day during the growing season, and taking care 
to remove the gummy exudation, which is found in abundance on this plant at least 
every week or ten days. Pot the plants as often as necessary, and remove the 
flower-buds as fast as they appear during the first season. This species is propa- 
gated by cuttings of the young wood, which strike rather tardily in a gentle heat. 
Statice imbricata, the imbricated Sea-Lavender, is another of Mr. Webb's plants 
from TenerifTe, and was introduced in 1819, but afterwards lost. It has been re- 
introduced through the same gentleman to one of the French nurserymen, and the 
writer has the authority of a very competent judge, who saw it blooming near Paris' 
for saying it is perhaps the finest Statice in cultivation. It is marked in the book 
before quoted as being a hardy plant ; but as most of the London nurserymen are 
treating it as a warm greenhouse plant, which treatment appears to agree with it 
admirably, we may conclude that the Cambridge catalogue is wrong again. Small 
plants of this Statice resemble S. sinuata very much in general appearance, but on 
close inspection the " scollops " of the leaves are more obtuse, the foliage is con- 
siderably stronger, and the plant is said to be a shrubby species. The drawings 
sent from France shew it to have very beautiful blue and white flowers, of consi- 
derable size, and the flower-stems appear to attain a height of from eighteen inches 
to two feet. It will require the same treatment as 8. arborea as to temperature and 
potting, and it will doubtless prove a very interesting and valuable plant. It may 
be propagated by cuttings, and also by division of the young plants. 
Statice Fortwii is one of Mr. Fortune's introductions from Chinchin, in China, 
where it was " found growing in sandy soil near the sea." It is a perennial plant, 
and the flower-stems in their wild state are not more than eight or nine inches high, 
but when the plant is grown in a greenhouse, they become from two to three feet in 
height. The flowers, which are bright pale-yellow, are produced very abundantly ; 
and in the " Journal of the Horticultural Society " vol. L, p. 70, Dr. Lindley states 
