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THE FLORIST. 
(Turner); Crystal Palace Lobelia (of Gardens).—This was decidedly 
the best for flower-garden purposes of the dwarf Lobelias here collected, 
the habit being neat and compact, and the flowers large and deep blue; 
but being raised from seed, it presented a slight amount of variation. 
Like other plants employed for special purposes, however, the best 
forms of these Lobelias, when required for artistic gardening, should be 
perpetuated by means of cuttings, so as to secure thorough uniformity 
of character. The best of those grown on this occasion was that known 
as the Crystal Palace Lobelia, the plants of which, having been raised 
from seeds, showed some diversity of habit. This form had the deepest 
blue flowers, with a smaller white spot or eye; the upper.part of the 
stems had a dark brownish tinge, and the plants formed compact open- 
branched tufts, with the lower leaves oblong-obovate, deeply and 
irregularly toothed, and the upper ones fewer, lanceolate, toothed. 
The others, contributed under the name of speciosa (seeds), quite agreed 
with the foregoing in habit, but differed in having the tips of the 
branches green instead of brownish, and the flowers of a rather lighter 
shade of deep blue; the stems were hairy, the lower leaves obovate, 
dentate, the upper ones lanceolate, less toothed, and the flowers marked 
with a white spot or eye at the base of the lower lip, this spot being 
sometimes large and rather conspicuous. 
Lobelia ramosa (Veitch). Syn : L.formosa (Carter & Co.)—A very 
handsome species, better adapted for pot-culture for the decoration of the 
greenhouse and conservatory than for the open air. It was of erect, 
openly-branched habit, with the lower leaves pinnatisected, and the 
upper ones linear-lanceolate; the flowers were bright deep blue, larger 
than in any of the foregoing species, and remarkable for the dimidiate 
or halved appearance of the lateral lobes of the lower lip, as well as for 
its large size as compared with the minute divisions of the upper lip. 
It is very nearly related to the true L. gracilis of botanists. 
Lobelia triquetra (Thompson).—A slender erect thinly-branched 
plant, with narrow lanceolate toothed leaves, and small pale blue 
unattractive flowers. 
Lupinus Dunnettii siiperbus (Veitch).—A very showy and effective 
plant, with the habit of L. hybridus insignis, but having light-coloured 
stems, and nearly smooth branches. The flowers in the young state 
were white, becoming lilac with age, the standard deep purple. The 
plant was dwarfish in habit, and produced its parti-coloured flower- 
spikes very freely. 
Lupinus Hartwegii albus (Veitch).—A very good form of Lupin 
with hairy branches, producing long and abundant racemes of large 
white flowers. This variety, together with the original blue form of 
the species, and the var. coelestinus, are handsome border plants. 
Lupinus Hartwegii ccelestinus (Veitch).—In this variety, which 
was a very pretty one, the flowers were of a very pale or grayish-blue. 
Lupinus hybridus insignis (Veitch).—A plant of dwarfish habit, 
having dark-coloured stems, and smooth branches, producing a fine 
central spike of bloom. The flowers were deep purplish-lilac. 
Lupinus Menziesii. Syn: L. sulphureus (NWimnn). —A plant of 
dwarf tree-like habit, producing, at about a foot from the ground, a 
