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top of the plant, and with upwards of forty expanded flowers upon it. This wa' 
produced by Mr. Duncan, gardener to — Campbell, Esq., Lamb Abbey, Kent 
Several magnificent specimens have also been grown at Brooklands, the seat oi 
J. Cook, Esq., by Mr. W. P. Ayres, from one of which our embellishment wa! 
sketched. 
According to Mr. Hartweg’s account in the “ Horticultural Transactions,” thi, 
is not the only species of Achimenes upon which cultivation has produced ai 
improved appearance. The flowers of A. longifiora and A. pedunculata are said t( 
be more abundant and nearly double the size in our plant-houses. The lattei 
grows in its native haunts with a slender stem about one foot high, having a few 
leaves at the top, and seldom bearing more than two flowers. 
The most successful cultivators start the tubers in a little bottom-heat, anc 
during their growth place them in a warm greenhouse or pit, where a moist anol 
partially shaded atmosphere is preserved. In their torpid state they only require 
to be kept dry. 
We must not conclude our remarks without mentioning the facility with! 
which this species may be had in bloom at every season of the year, by delaying 
or forcing the growth of the tubers, or rearing plants from leaves at different 
periods. I 
