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LOASA HERBERT II. 
shaped trellis, its closer growth, superior foliage, and finer flowers, give it a far 
better appearance than L. lateritia, and it will bloom abundantly throughout the 
summer and autumn months. For a summer ornament to the flower-garden, for 
placing singly on lawns, for aiding to form a temporary and agreeable hedge where 
flowers are most desired, or for covering detached trellisses in the warmer part of 
the season, it is particularly useful- 
From its origin, it will necessarily have to be propagated by cuttings, but this 
can be done with as much freedom and precision as the similar multiplication of 
numbers of half-hardy plants. If it is grown in pots, by plucking off the seed- 
vessels as they are formed, it is quite possible that the plant might assume a 
shrubby character, and last in perfection for many years. 
It is named after the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, the Dean of Manchester. 
Our drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, Pine- Apple Place, in 
the summer of 1842. 
