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GARDENIA STANLEY AN A. 
Ill pursuit of our usual custom, when the character of so deserving a plant cannot 
be sufficiently shown hy a plate, we subjoin a wood-cut. Propagation is effected 
without difficulty by cuttings ; of its management in other respects, Mr. Glendinning, ! 
of the Chiswick Nursery, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of preparing 
our drawing, in the “ Botanical Register” of last year, says : — “ What will render 
this plant a great favourite is its easy cultivation. I would recommend rough peat, 
leaf-mould, and silver sand in nearly equal proportions ; let the pots be well drained, 
and place a little moss over the drainage before potting, to prevent the compost from 
mixing with the drainage ; place the plant in rather high temperature in a close 
house or pit, and give abundance of atmospheric moisture ; under these circumstances 
the cultivation and flowering of this choice exotic will be certain and complete.” 
Ellis gave the generic name after Alexander Garden, M.D., of Charlestown, 
Carolina ; a correspondent of Linnaeus’ and himself. 
