THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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December 10. 
| belongs to a section of the Natural Order of Fig worts 
(Scrophulariaceae), Salpiglossis and Browallia being the 
nearest alliances. In the Linnsean system it is included 
in class 1 -k-Didynamia 2-Angiospermui. 
The Brunsfelsia (Franciscea) eximia was introduced in 
1847 from Brazil, its native place, by M. de Jonghe, of 
! Brussels. It blooms when very young, and the flowers last 
from January until the close of June. Its stem is about two 
feet and a half high; leaves shaped like those of the willow, 
three to six inches long, dull green above, paler beneath ; 
flowers two to four together at the ends of the branches ; 
calyx five-cleft, downy; corolla, with tube slightly curved 
anil longer than the calyx, spreading into five waved lobes, 
deep bluish purple, lightest towards their edges. 
Three-flowered Echeandia (Echeandia terniflora). 
Paxton's Flower Garden, vol. i., p. 120.—The derivation 
of this generic name is said to be unknown, but it was 
applied by M. Ortega, and probably means surpassingly 
beautiful, from the Greek elc and eanon. De this as it 
may, it is a lmU-hardy bulb, worthy of cultivation as 
j ornamental; and also worthy of notice to be held up as 
j another warning against the presumption and the mis- 
j chief of needlessly creating new names, thus helping 
! to overload our vocabularies with synonyms, and 
j embarrassing most needlessly the student. Any one 
j searching for information relative to this plant, must 
, seek for it as Anthcricum reflcxam in Cavanilles, as 
Conanthera Echeandia in Persoon, and as Plialungium 
reflexum in Poiret! 
Echeandia terniflora belongs to the Natural Order of Lihj- 
worts (Liliacere), and to C -Hexandria 1-Monogynia of Lin- 
liasus. It was first received in this country by Sir Charles 
Lemon in 1837, from Mr. Rule, then inspector of the noto¬ 
rious mines of Real del Monte, in Mexico. “ It flowered in 
the greenhouse at Carclew (Sir C. Lemon’s residence in 
Cornwall) in June, 1839, and continued to produce a succes¬ 
sion of five or six flowers daily during July and August. It 
promises to produce seeds by which there is every chance of 
its being increased.” This announcement in the Botanical 
Register some ten years since does not seem to have been I 
realized; but, at all events, the plant is not often met with, | 
and is propagated by offsets of its thick fleshy roots, which 
should be taken up in the autumn, and preserved through | 
the winter in sand. Though it bloomed earlier in the Corn- i 
wall greenhouse, yet, as a border flower, its blossoms do not \ 
expand until August; they are of a golden yellow, very like | 
those of the St. John’s Wort, but they last only one day. 
Scarlet-flowered Colquhoun ( Colquhounia cocdnea). j 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4514.—This genus, as stated 
by Mr. Beaton at page 85, was named after Mr. Colqu¬ 
houn, and belongs to the Natural Order of Lipworls 
(Labiatse). 
C. coccinea was introduced from Nepal about the year 
1840, and flowered towards autumn of the present year in , 
the Kew Botanic Garden. It is a half-hardy shrub, tall, and ! 
somewhat climbing; branches slightly four-sided; leaves | 
opposite each other in pairs, and from the angle between 
them and the branch spring the partially stem encircling 
flowers, upper lip, back of the tube, and margin of lower lip 
of these red, and other portions yellow. 
Daric-petalled Fuchsia ( Fuchsia nigricans).—Flore 
des Scrres, t. 481.—This is a native of the damp shady 
mountain ravines of Central America, at elevations of 
between 6000 and 8000 feet, whence, in 1847, it was 
introduced in Belgium by M. Linden. A greenhouse 
shrub, flowering from May to November. Nearly allied 
to F. triphyUa. 
Leaves egg-shaped, tapering to a point, usually in threes 
round the branch, but sometimes in pairs opposite each 
other; flowers hanging down, and springing from the angle 
between the leaf and the branch near its end; calyx rosy, 
downy inside ; petals dark violet, pointed, and flat. 
The genus Fuchsia was named after Leonard Fuchs, a 
German botanist; and belongs to the Natural Order Onagrads 
(Onagracea!), and to 8 -Octandria 1-Monogynia of Linmeus. 
B. J. 
THE ERUIT-GARDEN. 
Pine Culture. —Although we have hut recently 
offered advice as to the winter management of the pine¬ 
apple, principally in dung pits, yet there appears a 
necessity for taking up the subject again in a more 
general form, inasmuch as we find that one portion of 
the readers of The Cottage Gardener, and by no 
means an immaterial portion, desire further information. 
We must, therefore, crave the patience of another and 
important section of our readers—those who either do 
not cultivate the pine, or who already possess the kind 
of information it becomes our duty to endeavour to 
impart. 
In order to he fully understood by the class of readers 
desirous of instructions in detail, we feel compelled to 
take up the subject almost in a calendarial form, and to 
advert to the application of the great elements of heat, 
moisture and air, in their relation to the probable 
amount of light in each month. A consideration of the 
conflicting opinions—such as tank versus fermenting 
materials, or that of pots or no pots, we shall feel 
bound, in the main, to waive; these are, in the present 
state of matters, somewhat speculative. Not so, how- ; 
ever, the just apportionment of heat, moisture, and air, j 
in their relation to light; whatever mode of root culture 
be employed these remain unchanged, and, as it were, t 
unchangeable. 
To put a case, and gain a starting point, we will j 
suppose an amateur just commencing pine growing, 
previously knowing nothing about details of culture, 
merely having heard that the pine requires a great heat 
to bring it to perfection, and also that a great amount 
of atmospheric moisture is requisite. In addition, 
