COS'MUS SCABIOSOI DES. 
SCABIOUS-LIKE COSMUS. 
Class. 
SVNGENESIA. 
Order. 
SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
ASTEBACE^. 
Native of 
Heig’ht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
4 feet. 
Aug., Oct. ' 
1 Perennial. 
in 1837. 
No. 739. 
The name of this genus is borrowed from the 
Greek. Kosmos signifies beautiful, which may 
be applied to any of its species. 
Seeds of the Cosmus scabiosoides were imported 
from Mexico, by G. F. Dickson, Esq., F.H.S. and 
presented to the London Horticultural Society, 
where it first flowered in October, 1837. It is 
probable that this plant will, from culture, become 
double, and then, like the Dahlia, may excite ad- 
ditional interest in our gardens, not but that in its 
single state it is a most desirable plant. Our draw- 
ing was made in the Birmingham Horticultural 
Society’s Garden. 
This plant is so much like the Dahlia in its habit 
and requirements, that the mode of cultivation 
adapted to one will be suitable to the other; but by 
far the most interesting mode of increase, whilst the 
plant remains single, will be from seeds, whereby 
the propagator will have a chance, at least, of ob- 
taining a semidouble flower. If this were once 
procured, the hopes of the florist would then expand 
into certainty, that from some future generation the 
disideratum — a double flower, would spring. 
