SCHIZANTHUS RETUSUS. 
RETUSE-PETALLED SCHIZANTHUS. 
Class. Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIN.®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chile. 
2 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Annual. 
in 1831. 
No. 521» 
The name, Schizanthus, is compounded of two 
Greek words, skizo to cut, and anthos, a flower, 
in allusion to its cut corolla. Retusus, signifying' 
blunted, marks the character of the segments of the 
corolla. 
This is a beautiful and showy annual, of which 
we intended treating two years ago, but then we were 
unable to speak, with confidence, on its culture. Our 
fate, like that of many other persons, was to see the 
plants arrive almost at maturity, and then wither 
and die. Their lives were, indeed, of uncertain ten- 
ure. We have submitted this Schizanthus to several 
modes of treatment, and the following has succeeded 
completely. Seeds were sown in pots, in March, and 
forwarded in a temperate hotbed. They were potted 
separately, whilst very small, and in the course of 
two or three weeks, turned into the borders. Care 
was taken to keep their crowns above the soil ; and 
a little sand was placed beneath the crown — a point 
at which decay usually commences. 
It should be observed, that plants which were suf- 
fered to remain long in pots, were seldom turned 
into the borders with success. 
Bot. Mag. 3045. 
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