CULTURE OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
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POLEMONIACE®. 
Leptosiphon androsaceus, Androsace-like Leptosiplion.— 
This is a bushy annual, growing to the height of eight or ten inches. 
The flowers are collected into terminal heads, and vary in colour 
from white ,to pale blue and pink. The multitude of these flowers 
gives the plant a very gay appearance, and as it is perfectly hardy, 
and promises to seed well, there is no doubt hut that in a short time 
it will be found an important addition to our flower-beds. Though 
perfectly hardy, it cannot bear our summer heats, and only flourishes 
in the spring, or more particularly in the autumn, when the sun has 
lost his power, and the nights are cool with heavy dews. It should 
therefore either be sown in the autumn so as to flower early, or in 
June, in order that it may be ready for blossoming in September. 
Any kind of soil seems to suit it, but it is not improbable that a 
shaded American border may be the best. It is a native of Califor¬ 
nia, whence it was sent by Mr. Douglas.— Bot. Reg. 
HYDROPHYLLE®. 
Nemophila insignis, Shewy Nemophila.—The Nemophilas are 
all difficult plants to preserve in gardens. This elegant species is a 
low procumbent hardy annual, requiring a rich soil, not damp, and 
a situation fully exposed to the sun ; it must be protected carefully 
from wet, when forming its seeds, or they will not ripen.— Bot. Reg. 
ARTICLE VI. 
HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Linn® us, in 1753, first published this plant as a species, with two 
of its varieties, under the name of Chrysanthemum Indicum, in his 
first edition of the “ Species Plantarumthe same plant, under the 
name of Matricaria, having been given by Koempfer, in 1712, in 
his account of the plants of Japan, where it is cultivated by the na¬ 
tives in their gardens; and he describes eight double varieties of the 
genus, of various colours. It is also mentioned by Breynius, Pluke- 
net, Rhrede, and Petiver. Thunberg mentions in his Flora Japonica, 
published in 1784, that it grows spontaneously near Nagasaki and 
other places in Japan ; and Loureiro, in his Flora of Cochin-China, 
mentions it as one of the plants of that country. Rumphius, in his 
very elaborate work on the “ Plants of Ambovna,” published in 
1750, is more particular in his information respecting this plant 
than any preceeding author. The Chinese, by whom it is held in 
high estimation, pay much attention to its culture : they keep it in 
