Plate 81. 
MANGLES’ ANIGOZANTHUS. 
Anigozanthus* Manglesii . 
The very remarkable-looking flower, of which we have now 
the pleasure of presenting a portrait to our friends, is not a new 
one; but as it has received this season a special certificate from 
the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and 
as we entertain strong hopes that the difficulties which have 
heretofore attended its cultivation will be so overcome as to 
entitle it to the appellation of a “ popular flower,” we have 
thought it desirable to include it in our present issue. 
The plant was first introduced into England in 1833, seeds 
of it having been sent in that year by Sir James Sterling, 
Governor of Swan River, to Robert Mangles, Esq., of Whitmore 
Lodge, Berks,f and under the care of his gardener (who hav¬ 
ing grown it in an airy part of the greenhouse in the winter, 
planted it out in the open border, in a compost composed of 
maiden loam, leaf-mould, and bog-earth) it throve very well, 
and in about ten months from the time of the seed being sown, 
showed its singular scapes of bloom. Whether this treatment 
was unsuited for it permanently or not,j we do not know; but, 
at any rate, it seemed to have acquired the bad. character of 
“ fogging off” in winter, and hence had been almost lost sight 
of, until in the present year the very fine plant from which our 
figure was taken, was exhibited by Mr. Kinghorn, of Sheen 
Nursery, Richmond, and not only received the special award 
to which we have already referred, but was pronounced by Dr. 
* The generic name is derived from cu/ecr^co, £ I raise up,’ and avOos, ‘ a 
flower,’ from bearing up proudly its crown of flowers. 
t Maund’s Botanist, where it is figured, ii. t. 67. It is also figured in Bot. 
Mag. t. 3S75, and in Sweet’s Blower Garden, ii. t. 265. 
t It was wintered in a cold frame. 
