May 17, 1888. J 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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CANTUA DEPENDENS. 
Several Cantuas are grown in gardens, the best known being C. 
buxifolia, and a new relative of this is C. dependens, shown in fig. .^>3. 
flowers are then seen to greatest advantage. In this way Mr. Ross grows 
C. dependens at Pendell Court, and the fine flowers he recently showed 
at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting, as represented in our 
Fig. 53.—CAFTUA DERENDEKS. 
They are all evergreen plants from Peru, and allied to the Phloxes and 
Poletnoniumsof our bonlers, though differing from them widely in habit. 
The Cantuas require a greenhouse temperature, and seem most at home 
when planted out and trained to pillars or walls, as their long drooping 
I engraving, amply indicate 1 the success of the system adopted. The 
flowers have an orange reil coloured tube, with bright rosy crimson 
spreading lobes, and they are produced freely from the axils of the 
leaves, being somewhat clustered at the ends of the shoots. A compost 
