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PECULIARITIES IN THE CULTURE OF NEW PLANTS. 
the flower-garden. They were completely environed on all sides with the Mimulus 
moschatus, which, though at first sparingly scattered throughout the bed, had 
extended over every inch of its surface, and, in the summer, was fully one foot high, 
presenting a continuous sheet of yellow blossoms. The soil of the bed is yearly 
dug over, but the Mimulus receives no detriment from being thus rudely disturbed, 
and, as the roses are not materially injured by this plant, no efforts are made to 
promote its destruction. When it and the roses are blooming at the same time, a 
most enchanting effect is produced. 
PECULIARITIES IN THE CULTURE OF NEW AND 
BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 
Lisianthus Russellianus. When our coloured figure of this splendid plant 
was published, (see Vol. VI., p. 31,) want of space prevented us from appending an 
engraving, by which those who are not familiar with the plant might be enabled to 
form some idea of its mode of growth. Having subsequently assured ourselves, 
by frequent examination of many specimens growing in the metropolitan collections, 
on several points in its character and cultivation which were then involved in 
considerable incertitude, we now place before our readers the result of these investi- 
gations, and likewise give insertion to a woodcut representing the general outline 
of the species. 
The first circumstance to which we shall call attention, on account of its being 
one of primary importance, is that, so far as our inquiries have reached, this plant 
will not succeed in a house of a temperature below that of the stove. The opinion, 
therefore, which was originally entertained respecting the probability of its proving 
nearly hardy, is quite baseless. We must be understood, however, as referring 
solely to the attainment of perfection by its flowers ; for the plant will certainly 
thrive in the open ground through the summer, but it will not flower in this situa- 
tion ; or it will occasionally even produce flowers in the greenhouse, though of a very 
inferior description. As, then, the production of the finest floral display must 
necessarily be the object of the culturist, a perfect knowledge of the best means of 
obtaining this is obviously to be desired, and we are now enabled to state that, for 
the present subject, the temperature of a stove is paramount and indispensable. 
Great doubts have long existed relative to the duration of this species ; some 
having considered it merely annual, while others — among whom we reckon our- 
selves, as may be seen by consulting the reference above given — have supposed it a 
true perennial. From more than one case recently presented to our notice, we 
can now decidedly confirm the latter supposition. Indeed, it appears to be of 
rather a sub-shrubby nature ; for, although the stems invariably decay when all 
the flowers have faded, they emit a number of young shoots from those portions of 
