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weeks tlie plant will be covered with masses of its purple flowers; it will 
then hear comparison with most stove plants in flower at that season. 
After it has done flowering it should be kept in warm dry part of the stove 
to ripen the wood properly ; it should then be kept during the winter months 
in a cool part of the house, and have little or no water till spring. 
Besides being one of the most beautiful of stove plants, it is also one of 
the most easy to grow. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
SILENE PENNSYLVANIA. 
This beautiful little hardy plant, for which we are indebted to the Messrs. 
Backhouse, and of which plants have been exhibited by them at South 
Kensington, is called in America the Wild Pink. It is a herbaceous peren 
nial, and forms dense tufts 8 to 4 inches high. The flowers are rose- 
coloured or rosy purple, an inch or more across, and borne in clusters of six 
or eight together, on viscid and hairy stalks about 6 inches high. It is 
perfectly hardy, and grows in very sandy soil, in which its strong branching 
root buries itself deeply. Nothing can be more charming than a mass 
of this plant when covered with its bright rose-coloured flowers, which seem 
to carpet the soil or rock on which they are planted. So beautiful is it, 
