230 THE FLORIST AND 
Canna requires no peculiarities of cultivation. The Erythrina should be 
placed in a deep, rich, rather moist and shaded soil, protected by a layer 
of decayed leaves two inches in depth. 
North Ridgeville, 0., Aug. 6th, 1855. 
NOTICE OF SOME NEW PLANTS, &c. 
BY J. P. KIRTLAND. 
From the seeds of the Pharhitis limbata and Whitlavia grandiflora, you 
had the goodness to forward to me, I have succeeded in propagating some 
fine plants of each. The former is now flowering very abundantly both in 
open grounds and in the green house; it "however succeeds best under glass. 
The latter also does best under similar jDrotection. 
A year since, I received from Mr. R. D. Breckenridge, of Washington city, 
two or three seeds of the Pavonia Comalensis, from New Mexico. From 
them, I have reared a neat shrub, which is now conspicuous among my 
green house plants, by its fine pink flowers. It belongs to the Malvaceae, 
and has the prominent habits of that family. 
Can you or your readers inform me whether it will bear the winters in 
open air, as far north as this latitude ? 
On the farm of Mr. Kelley, two miles west of Cleveland, stands a large 
chestnut tree, [Castanea Americana,) which invariably commences bloom- 
ing, on or before the first of June every year, and continues to be covered 
with a succession of barren or staminate catkins, until vegetation is arrested 
by frost, which usually happens about the 25th of October. In one or two 
instances, during the last ten or fifteen years, a few abortive burrs have 
formed, but never perfected fruit. 
To the practical Botanist, such an occurrence may be familiar and 
frequent, for aught I know ; but to me it is new. 
In this vicinity, few plants are at this time attracting more attention 
than a variegated creeper, (Ampelopsis quinquefolia.) A specimen obtained 
from Mr. Heaver, of Cincinnati, three years since, is now running on a 
north western wall of my house. The beauty of the variegated leaves and 
young wood, adapt it for arbors and walls. 
I suppose^it must be a seedling from our indigenous vine ; but its history 
I do not know. 
East Rockport, 0., Aug. Qth, 1855. 
