ornamental greenhouse plants are grown, for in such situations 
it will, at any rate for a time, be found; its rarity will no 
doubt prevent any experiments as to its hardiness being tried 
for the present. Should it ultimately prove hardy, we can 
readily conceive what a valuable root it will be found for our 
flower borders, which are once more working their way into 
favour, threatening to reoccupy some of the ground which the 
bedding-out system has ousted them from. 
We have only to add, that it obtained a first-class certificate 
from the Floral Committee of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 
when exhibited before them, and that it is now being distri¬ 
buted by the Messrs. Backhouse, who, as we have said, were 
the introducers of it, and to whose courtesy we are indebted for 
the opportunity of figuring it. 
