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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
for if left a second season, the soil will be certain to become sour, and 
then the roots rot as fast as they are made. When repotting, shake them 
clean out. I do not approve of pans placed under the pots; and never 
syringe overhead, as it has a tendency to induce a softer growth in the 
pitchers, which causes them to die off much sooner. During the growing 
season I water every day, in winter twice a-week. 
I should strongly advise those who may be commencing their cultiva¬ 
tion to procure thoroughly established plants, as there is great uncertainty 
in imported ones : sometimes almost every plant in an importation will 
grow, but much oftener the plants, after potting, commence growing, and 
go on the first season without making any roots, the leaves they produce 
being simply a last effort of the plant working on the little vitality it has 
left. Such plants are almost certain to go off in the winter; hence their 
scarcity. On one occasion I received a dozen plants, which all appeared to 
be going on right the first season, but only one of the number lived through 
the winter ; they had made no roots. The sorts I cultivate are these :— 
S. rubra , which is extremely rare ; the flowers scented, equal to Russian Violets. 
S. purpurea, and a variety much finer than usual in its veinings. 
S.Jiava , three varieties, quite distinct from each other. 
S. variolaris. 
S. Drummondii rubra and Drummondii alba, the latter variety being very scarce. 
Summerfield , Bowden . T. Baines. 
TACSONIA BUCHANANI. 
! HIS ornamental and very distinct species of Taesonia has been re¬ 
cently discovered in the forests of Panama, where it is found climbing 
the trees, and decorating them with its brilliantly coloured flowers. 
The stems and branches are terete, and furnished with five-lobed 
leaves, the segments of which are deeply and unequally toothed, and 
the sinuses furnished with several (one to four) glands. The flowers 
measure about 4£ inches across, and are of a bright vermilion red; they 
have a short tube and peduncle, a ray of about ten corolline segments, and 
a triple corona, of which the first is very short, the second is longer and 
preading, adherent at the base, and the third is connivent and entirely free. 
The leaflets of the involucre are ovate-lanceolate, and coarsely gland¬ 
toothed at the margin. 
The stock of this brilliant plant has been acquired by M. A. Verscliaffelt 
from Mr. Buchanan, of New York, who states that it flowers very abun¬ 
dantly twice a-year—namely, in May and in September. 
As conservatory or hothouse climbers of large growth, the half-dozen 
species of Taesonia now found in our gardens occupy a high position. Three 
of them have rosy pink blossoms ; and of these T. pinnatistipula and T. mol- 
lissima have the flowers long-tubed, while T. sanguined has the tube short. 
