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CASTILLEJA LITHOSPERMOIDES. 
into that of an eleven-inch, and so on, and he secures sufficient 
drainage, a shallow stratum of soil, with all the advantages of a 
pot combined. 
Amicus. 
[The remarks to which our correspondent refers were intended 
only to embrace the best means of cultivating the genus men¬ 
tioned. That it is desirable to have the plants composing the 
exterior row in a collection of about the same height, must be 
obvious to all. Amicus shows how it may be done and yet 
retain the advantages of a pan; this is placing the West Kent 
pot in a new light, and adds another to the many existing reasons 
why this ingenious invention should be universally adopted. 
We can only say, when Achimenes are intended to be exhibited 
with other plants in pots, by all means grow them in the manner 
described.] 
CASTILLEJA LITHOSPERMOIDES. 
Our second figure, this month, represents a small portion of 
the very beautiful plant known by the above name ; its brilliantly 
coloured bracts give to the numerous flower-spikes a remarkably 
gay appearance, which, being continued throughout the summer, 
or even longer, under favorable circumstances, render the plant 
very desirable for ornamental purposes, either out of doors in 
summer or among green-house subjects at a later period. The 
specimen, from which our drawing was taken, was obligingly 
furnished by Mr. Cattell, nurseryman, of Westerham, Kent, to 
whom also we are indebted for the accompanying note on its 
culture. If it should be found to succeed with the treatment 
of half-hardy annuals, as suggested by Mr. Cattell, the circum¬ 
stance will reduce the trouble of its management very con¬ 
siderably, and cause it to be very generally grown among such 
plants; we presume one of the essentials to its successful cul¬ 
ture will be, in any position, most ample drainage; it appears 
to be a plant which, if preserved from an excess of moisture, 
requires no other care; its long-continued beauty will certainly 
ensure this little attention. 
Seeds of this beautiful Castilleja were received from Texas in 
