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CENTROPOGON FASTUOSUS. 
Lobeliacese — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Char. Gener. — Calyx tubo subgloboso, cum ovario connate, limbi superi 
quinquefidi laciniis subulatis patentibus. Corolla summo calycis tubo inserta 
tubo cylindraceo, medio incurvo, integro, limbi quinquefidi laciniis falcato- 
galeatis, inferioribus patentibus. Stamina 5, inter corollam et annulum 
perigynum carnosum, quinquedentatum persistentem inserta ; filamenta et 
anthercE, quarum duse inferiores aculeo ovato triangulari cartilagineo, soli- 
tario terminatse, in tubum liberum coalitse. Ovarium inferum, biloculare. 
Ovula in placentis magnis, carnosis, dissepiment© utrinque adnatis, medio 
cristatis plurima. Stylus inclusus ; stigma exserta bilobum ; Baeca globosa, 
bilocularis, pericarpio tenui, placentis carnosis.* Semina plurima. Sujfru- 
tices Amerieoe tropicce foliis alternis integris, serratis, floribus axillarihus 
solitariis longe peduncalatis. Presl. 
Char. Spec. — C. caule simplici teretiusculo glabro, foliis ellipticis acutis 
vel acuminatis, basi obtusis breviter petiolatis dentatis, dentibus minimis 
acutis callosis uncinatis, pedicellis folio subbrevioribus, basi bibracteolatis, 
calycis tubo hemisphserico, lobis lanceolato acuminatis, tubo longioribus sub- 
denticulatis. Corolla incurva superni subventricosa, lobis superioribus ma- 
joribus recurvis faucem obtigentibus, antheris longe exsertis omnino hirsutis, 
bacca globosa. 
This plant although not generally cultivated until within a few years in 
gardens, is an old species, having been described by Linnaeus under the 
name o^ Lobelia Surinamensis. 
It is one of the most useful of our greenhouse plants, flowering, with little , 
care, nearly the whole season. It forms a compact bush, bearing a cluster 
of its beautiful rose-pink flowers near the end of each branch. The folige 
is bright green and dense. The leaves resemble those of the Peach. It 
has been cultivated in this city with great success in the last four or five 
years and is obtainable from nurserymen generally. 
SUMMER PRUNING OF GRAPE VINES. 
It has often been advised, and that too by some of the best grape 
cultivators, to stop the bearing shoots at an eye, or at most, two eyes above 
the bunch, and likewise to do the same with the young cane when it has 
elongated to the top of the rafter, also to pinch-out all laterals as they are 
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