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jEICHYNANTHUS boschianus. 
Pine-apple Place. The plants had little matter to root into, nothing richer tfo 
decayed moss, fibrous peat, or leaf-mould, and were wholly under control, so far al 
being kept dry, &c., at pleasure. In the proper application of the last principl 
lies the secret of flowering many succulent plants, difficult to bring into an inflc 
rescent condition. Small rockeries, or rustic fixtures in the stove, or Orchid house 
furnish appropriate situations for our subject to trail over, and grow upon as i 
pleases ; and under such circumstances there is little fear but it would flower freely 
Specimens brought into flower in the stove, afterwards do well, and continue t 
develope their blossoms in the greenhouse. Cuttings root with great facility. 
The generic name is from aischune modesty, and anthos a flower ; th 
specific is given by De Vriese, complimenting Vanden Bosch, formerly Governor 
General of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies. 
