size. A full-length portrait would occupy a can- 
vas, according to the language of the painter, of 
double kit-cat extent, or as large as a dining-room 
door. It has proved to be the most gigantic 
species at present known ; and has rarely been 
hitherto seen in that perfection of size and mag- 
nificence which it is capable of attaining. Some- 
times in the greenhouse it will grow six or eight 
feet high, without any indication of flowers, which 
may arise from its having extensive pot room, or 
rich feeding ; still, where fine specimens are 
desired, this may not be objectionable. Under the 
requisite protection, there cannot be a doubt but it 
may be grown to double the height mentioned. 
On the other hand, if small flowering plants be 
required, cuttings should be struck, and the plants 
kept with little pot room. It is a species easily 
managed, and we esteem it of much value for the 
open garden. If cuttings be struck in the summer, 
and the small plants be kept in pots, in the house, 
till the May following, they may then take their 
places in the garden. Turned out of the pots, and 
trained against a wall, they become objects of great 
beauty in the latter part of the summer; but its 
remarkably fine foliage is likely to be injured if ex- 
posed in an unsheltered situation. It has not 
survived the winter with us; nor is this important, 
inasmuch as young plants are so easily struck 
and kept under protection through the winter. 
Probably the old roots also may be taken up in 
the autumn and kept in the house or a cold frame. 
Young plants, struck from the points of shoots 
in a flowering state, flower early in small pots. 
