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ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNICA. 
soil, and is easily increased by cuttings or seeds. The seedlings flower in the first 
season, in the month of September, if sown in May. It is a very fine hardy peren- 
nial, rivalling the Fuchsia, and most probably will flower from June to October, 
if planted in a warm situation on rock- work.” ^ 
Grown as a specimen plant for exhibition it may be rendered a fine object. The 
accompanying vignette will give some idea of its beauty ; still its capabilities are yet 
very imperfectly known, and another season must elapse, before a sufficient knowledge ^ 
of its habits can be gained, to insure that splendour which it may, perhaps, by first- 
rate culture exhibit. 
