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prevent it flourishing in summer when planted in the open air ; it is as exact! 
suitable, and as likely to do so as other plants in the Order, which custom had onci 
and long prescribed stove management for, and which now are found to do bette 
there. If it should be found to succeed out of doors, it will be very useful for j 
sheltered border, if not in the flower-garden. 
This is another addition to the many subjects we have been favoured with fron 
the collection of B. G. Lorraine, Esq., of Wellington Lodge. 
Sandy loam and leaf-mould or peat is suitable soil, and it is easily increased bj 
cuttings, or the sucker-like shoots found at the base of the plants. 
