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LOBELIA, 
into the Greenhouse, or room windows, and water 
them as they require it. When done flowering, keep 
them growing until the leaves turn yellow, and die 
off; then keep the bulbs quite dry in the pots until 
September, when they should be repotted and treated 
as before. They increase by offsets, which should be 
separated from the parent bulbs, and planted in sepa¬ 
rate pots. 
The Oxalis Genus answers very well, and flowers 
freely under the same mode of treatment as last de¬ 
scribed. 
LOBELIA, (or CARDINAL FLOWER.) 
The L. Cardinalis is a beautiful native plant, grow¬ 
ing in brooks or moist places, and producing its fine 
scarlet flowers in August. 
They are easily cultivated by removing them from 
their natural places of growth, and planting them in 
the garden in any rich moist soil, in which they will 
grow and flower well. There are several species of 
this plant, as L. fulgens, and L. splendens, which are 
of a fine scarlet. The L. caerulea, and L, speciosa, 
(the former blue and the latter purple,) are of the 
same habits of growth. They require to be taken up 
every year or two, and the old flower stems removed 
and the plants reset, for if they are left too long, the 
old flower stems decay, and cause the plants to die. 
