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heat on their juices, inducing them to expand blossoms instead of additional wood. 
Under like circumstances, consequently, the species will constitute a very welcome 
addition to the autumnal-flowering stove plants, and can be put on a stage without 
soon growing into an encumbrance. 
When the climate of China or Japan is considered, and the many species of 
plants with which those countries have supplied us, and which are either hardy or 
half-hardy in our gardens, are taken into account, it will be conjectured that the 
Tecoma before us may be as little tender as Kerria , Aucuba , and numberless 
Japanese shrubs. Having been tried against a wall in three or four metropolitan 
establishments, it has not been seriously injured ; and a mulching of hay, straw, or 
old bark over its roots in winter, to keep them from extreme wetness or frosts, 
renders it as safe as could be desired. It is highly probable that it might be 
treated as a shrub in the border of which mention is made in a previous page ; for 
no climber will better bear reducing to a bush : and the more it is pruned, consist- 
ently with its capacity, the freer will be its production of inflorescence, since the 
flowers appear on the summits of the current year s shoots, towards increasing the 
number of which pruning has a direct tendency. 
Under each system of culture here propounded, the soil should be composed of 
similar constituents. A light fresh loam, mixed with a small quantity of heath- 
mould and sand, to render it porous and preserve it from adhesion, will always be 
appropriate. When grown in pots, the plant can be shifted in spring, as soon as its 
buds begin to burst. A large pot is by no means necessary, until the specimens 
have reached a height of ten or twelve feet ; and even then it will conduce greatly 
to augment its proliferousness if the roots be a little but not too strictly cramped. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
APRIL. 
Armeria fasciculata. A very showy and shrubby species of Thrift, forming 
a neat dwarf evergreen bush, and producing its fine heads of pink flowers about the 
month of August. It is a native of Corsica, Portugal, and Spain, and approaches 
nearest to A. maderensis, which is said to be without a stem ; though, in gardens, 
it is often erroneously called A. scabra. The open border is very suitable for it in 
the summer season ; but it must be treated as a tender shrub, and kept in pits 
during winter. A sandy soil, and little water, save while it is growing, are indis- 
pensable. Bot. Reg. 21. 
Bomarea simplex. The genus Bomarea is a division from Alstreemeria , to 
which it is very closely allied. Two good varieties of the above species are here 
figured and described by the Hon. and Yerv Rev. W. Herbert. They were found 
