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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 4, 1859. 
Hard-wooded plants, as Heaths, Epacris, Azaleas, and Ca¬ 
mellias, should now be under protection from cold rains and 
sudden frosts, if not placed at once in the greenhouse or con¬ 
servatory. The plants would often stand a good amount of cold, 
if dry, and if the pots were not exposed. When the plants are 
fully exposed, and a clear night follows an afternoon of cold, 
soaking rain, the outside and best roots are often fatally chilled, 
though the plants present no signs of it in the morning; and, 
consequently, during the winter and spring, flower-buds drop, or 
refuse to open kindly, as the result of the chilling effects that 
the roots suffered. Continued soaking of the soil, even when 
not associated with much amount of cold, induces an unhealthy 
condition, as the extra moisture cannot at once be removed, 
either by drainage or perspiration though the foliage. When no 
other protection can be secured thus early, a canvass or calico 
covering stretched on rollers would be useful, to be rolled up or 
down at pleasure. R. Eish. 
PASSIFLORA PEINCEPS PRUNING. 
“ A Constant Subscriber ” would be very much obliged by 
being informed with regard to the pruning of the Passiflora 
princeps. It has made shoots five or six yards long, and there 
are eight or nine of them, but it has not flowered this yeai\ It 
is a beautiful plant of three years’ growth. 
[As these long shoots have not bloomed, give all the light 
possible, but give no more water than will keep it from flagging ; 
take a foot or so off their length in a week, and repeat the 
operation in another week. Do everything to harden the lower 
end of these shoots, and in winter or spring cut back each to a 
foot or fifteen inches in length. Allow three or four shoots 
to come from each in spring ; and when these are two or three 
feet in length, they will most likely show their fine bunches 
of scarlet flowers.] 
HARDY ELOWEEING HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
(Continued from page 381, Vol. XXII.) 
ASTEROCEPHALUS. 
Nat. ord. Dipsacacese. Linn. Tetrandia Monogynia. 
Generic Character. — Involucre simple, many-parted, or many¬ 
leaved. Receptacle chaffy. Corolla tubular, five-cleft, radiat¬ 
ing. Achenium double crowned, scarious outside, and bristly 
within. 
Asterocephauus agrestis (field). Stem terete, purplish at 
the joints, glaucous, hairy at the base ; radical-leaves entire, 
rather lyrate; stem-leaves tri-pinnate and pinnate, with linear 
segments ; peduncles hairy at the top ; involucre-leaves linear, 
downy. Purple. August. Hungary. 
A. amcenus (pleasant). Stem branched, hairy at base; radical- 
leaves obovate, toothed or lyrate, rather hairy; stem-leaves 
pinnatifid, lobes lanceolate, acute; peduncles elongated with 
retrograde villi under the heads; crown twenty-nerved. Purple, 
June. Russia. 
A. Bannaticus (Bannatic). Stem branched, with white reflexed 
hairs at the joints and base; radical-leaves lyrate, hairy; stem- 
leaves rather bi-pinnate, segments linear, ciliated, and each 
ending with a white hair; involucre length of corolla. 3 ft. 
Pink. July. Hungary. 
A. canescens (hoary). Plant hoary; stem many-flowered ; ra¬ 
dical-leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire ; stem-leaves pinnatifid. 
It is sweet-scented, and, therefore, called A. suaveolens. 1 ft. 
Pinkish-lilac. July. Hungary. 
A. capillatus (long-haired). Lower leaves supra-decompouncl; 
upper leaves bi-pinnate-parted, lobes of all slender, filiform, 
smooth, margins rather pilose ; peduncles very long, scabrous ; 
involucre long as corolla; eroivn spreading. 2 ft. Violet. 
July. Hungary. 
A. Caucasicus (Caucasian). Radical-leaves lanceolate-acumi¬ 
nate, entire, glaucous; involucre very villous, base of invo- 
lucels elongated; crown short, tw-enty-five-nerved; calyx limb 
sessile, bristles exserted. 1 ft. Blue. June. Caucasus. 
A. ceratophyllus (Buckthorn-leaved). Stem fistular, villous ; 
radical-leaves lyrate, crenated; stem-leaves bi-pinnatifid, seg¬ 
ments linear-falcate; involucre leaves long as flowers; calyx 
bristles five. 2 ft. Red. July. Italy. 
A. columbaeius (pigeon-coloured). Stem branched, smoothish ; 
radical-leaves ovate, obtuse, crenated, petiolate, membraneous, 
hoary with down on both sides ; stem-leaves smoothish, pinnate- 
parted, segments linear, flat; peduncles elongated, usually 
trifid, downy ; crown twenty-nerved; calyx bristles five, double 
length of crown. 1 ft. Purple. July. Britain. 
A. crenatus (notched). Stems suffruticose at base, adseending; 
leaves smoothish, bi-pinnatifid, lobes entire or tri-dentate; 
peduncles long ; corollas crenated ; crown sub-dentate, sixteen 
to twenty-nerved ; calyx limbs sessile, bristles twice length of 
crown. 2 ft. Eiesh. August. Italy. 
A. elegans (elegant). Leaves whitish, stem ones undivided, 
nearly or quite entire; otherwise the same as A. Caucasicus. 
1 ft. Light blue. S. of Europe. 
A. geaminifolius (grass-leaved). Stem one-flowered' suffruti- 
coso at base ; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, silvery-white; 
crown twenty-four-nerved; calyx limb pedunculate, bristles 
five, long as crown. 1 ft. Blue. July. Switzerland. 
A. HOIOSERICEUS (all-siiky). Plant covered with hoary, velvety 
down; lower-leaves lanceolate, obtuse, crenated; upper-leaves 
pinnatifid, lobes lanceolate, acute, entire; involucre-leaves 
linear; crown twenty-nerved, third length of tube; calyx 
bristles five, twice length of crown. 1 ft. Blue. July, 
Pyrenees. 
A. inoanus (hoary). Stem villous; leaves hoary, pinnate- 
parted, lobes linear, ciliated. Hardly differing from A. colurn- 
barms. 1 ft. Red. July. Europe. 
A. Isetensis (Isetsk). Stem much branched ; leaves downy, 
lower-ones bi-pinnate-parted, upper-ones pinnate-parted; 
flower-heads and stalls covered with white tomentum; crown 
erect, sixteen to twenty-nerved, half length of bristles. 1 ft. 
White. July. Siberia. 
A. eucidus (shining). Plant glabrous; stems usually one- 
flowered ; leaves shining, radical ones ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
crenated, stem ones pinnatifid, lobes linear acute; crown twenty 
to twenty-four-nerved, one-third length of tube ; calyx bristles 
five times length of crown. 2 ft. Blue. Dauphiny. 
A. luteus (yellow). 2 ft. Yellow. June. Russia. 
A. MOiLissiMUS (softest). Plant covered with hoary, velvety 
down; stem rather branched, few-flowered; radical-leaves 
oblong, crenated; upper stem-leaves bi-pinnatifid, lobes linear, 
entire; involucre-leaves lanceolate; crown third length of tube, 
twenty-nerved; calyx bristles about four times length of 
crown. 2 ft. White. June. Italy. 
A. nitens (glittering). Leaves undivided, elliptic, serrated^ 
shining, stalked. 1 ft. June. Azores. 
A. ochroieucus (yellowish-white). Stem branched, rather hairy ; 
radical-leaves lyrate, pinnatifid, downy on both sides; stem- 
leaves pinnate-parted, lobes linear and flat; peduncles elongated, 
slightly hairy ; crown twenty-nerved, half length of tube; 
calyx bristles thrice length of crown. 1 ft. Yellow. July. 
Germany. 
A. Pyrenaiccs (Pyrenean). Plant covered with ash-coloured 
down; in other respects like A. mollissimus. 1 ft. Purple. 
July. S. of France. 
A. rupestris (rock). 1 ft. Pink. July. Caucasus. 
A. RUT.EFOLirs (Rue-leaved). Radical-leaves pinnate; stem- 
leaves linear; calyces one-leaved, five-cleft. 1 ft. Scarlet. 
July. Italy. 
A. setiferus (bristle-bearing). Stem bi’anched, downy; lower- 
leaves ovate-spatulate, crenated or cut, rather villous ; upper- 
leaves pinnate, segments linear-lanceolate, obtuse, the terminal 
segments largest; corollas much longer than the involucre. 
2 ft. White. July. France. 
A. siIiENiFOLius (Silene-leaved). 11 ft. Red. July. Hungary. 
A. tomentosus (woolly). Stems procumbent, shrubby ; leaves 
dent a tely -pimuit ill d, hoary from down; involucre leaves 
bluntish; calyx bristles six, short, scabrous. 1£ ft. Blue. July. 
Spain. 
A. Ucranicus (Ukraine). Stem branched; leaves ciliated at 
the base, lower ones pinnatifid, lobes linear, distant, upper ones 
linear, quite entire; heads pedunculate; base of involucels 
hemispherical; eroivn twenty to twenty-four-nerved, acutely- 
toothed, shorter than the bristles. 1 ft. Light yellow. July. 
Russia. 
A. Webbianus (Webb’s). Plant covered with silky, hoary 
clown ; lower leaves stalked, obovate, crenated ; upper-leaves 
pinnatifid, lobes oblong or ovate, entire; heads on long pe¬ 
duncles ; corollas nearly equal; crown four times length of 
lube; calyx bristles five, black. 6 in. White. July. Greece. 
The Starheads arc a large tribe of handsome-flowering plants, 
