in outline. It is shrubby at the base of the stem, and furnished 
with oblong, or spathulately oblong-obovate undulated leaves, 
which are somewhat rough, and sprinkled with scattered stel¬ 
late hairs on the surface, with a ciliated margin. The dowering 
stems are from a foot to two feet high, narrowly winged, scarcely 
more than ancipital, branched above, forming spreading corym¬ 
bose heads of flowers, which consist of a purple calyx and white 
corolla, very much like what occurs in the allied plants. 
The merit of this new variety, which will become an invalu¬ 
able plant for the decoration of warm greenhouses and sitting- 
rooms during the autumn and winter, and a useful auxiliary pot- 
dowering plant at other seasons, consists in its moderate pro¬ 
portions, which are yet large enough to be effective, but more 
especially in its habit of profuse and continuous blooming. 
There is in cultivation a kindred but spurious hybrid, from the 
same source, very much resembling this in foliage and blossoms, 
but which has not the same property of perpetual blooming. 
Not the least of the good qualities this Statice possesses 
is the facility with which it may be cultivated. Mr. Parker 
recommends, in order to secure strong plants for the ensuing 
season’s bloom, to propagate in August or September, taking 
the young side-shoots with heels, and inserting them in pure 
sand in pots or pans prepared as is usual for propagating pur¬ 
poses. They are then to be plunged in a close frame, with a 
temperature of 65°, and a moderate amount of bottom heat. 
As soon as well-rooted, the young plants are to be potted off 
into three-inch pots, in a compost of equal proportions of light 
loam and well-decayed leaf-mould, with the addition of a little 
silver sand and peat. As soon as they fill these, and each suc¬ 
cessive pot, with roots, they are to be shifted on, and kept 
growing all the winter in a temperature of 60°, and in a light 
situation. By this treatment they form large bushes in eleven- 
inch pots by the middle of May, and will keep up a profuse 
succession of bloom from that time till midwinter, and even all 
through the winter, if placed in a temperature of 55°. When 
finally repotted a small proportion of rotten cow-dung is to be 
added to the soil already named, and a less proportion of leaf- 
mould used; and when the plants get pot-bound, an occasional 
watering of weak liquid manure is beneficial. 
