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STENOCARPUS CUNNINGHAMI. 
long time experiencing injudicious treatment. Under different circumstances our . 
Chatsworth plant flowered, in a splendid manner, producing its blossoms upon the I 
oldest as well as the young wood. 
Our plate very satisfactorily shows the splendour of the inflorescence ; but the 
specimen represented was hardly an average one, nor will so limited a space allow 
such to be portrayed. The portions of inflorescence growing from the axils of the 
leaves and on the old wood from where they had fallen, are very freely borne, and 
vary in the number of umbels each produces. A fine dried specimen, cut from our 
plant, has eight flowers in different stages of development. The plant is a splendid 
evergreen, growing erect and tall when left to itself, without many side branches. 
The management of this fine plant is very simple ; it is hardy, and will bear 
much rough usage. But its flowering is another affair, as will be thought when 
it is recollected that sunshine like that of last summer was necessary to throw 
the plant into bloom. In cultivating 8. Cunninghami , those measures which tend 
to produce early maturity should be employed. Propagation is effected by cuttings. 
Stenos, narrow, and Karpos, fruit, gives the generic name. 
