THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, February 17,1857. 341 
SERICOGRAPIIIS GHIESBR'EGHTJANA. 
Presented to the Horticultural Society by Mr. J. A. Henderson, F.H.S., of Pine-Apple Place, in April, 1847. 
A hat.f-iierbaceous shrub, with smooth stems, and dark 
green oblong lanceolate leaves. The, llowers are arranged 
in small, loose, one-sided, and downy panicles, and are sessile 
on the side branches which bear them. The calyx is hairy, 
and divided into five very narrow leaves. The tubular corolla 
is about an inch and a half long, bright purplish red, with a 
two-lipped mouth, of which the lobes are nearly equal, the 
upper being two-toothed, the lower three-toothed. 
It requires the same treatment as Ju slid as and similar 
soft-wooded stove plants. It is easily increased by cut¬ 
tings, and flowers freely in October, November, and 
December. 
It is a very handsome winter-flowering stove shrub, re¬ 
maining a long time in bloom. Its bright scarlet flowers 
make it very desirable in winter. — {Horticultural Society's 
Journal.) 
BREWING. 
The following rules for brewing may appear superfluous; 
they are written for those who are as ignorant as I teas, at 
which time I should have been most grateful for such 
directions. -They will probably be useless to you, as I hope 
to see in your pages many useful hints on the subject. Any 
lady may, with the assistance of a lad, brew with no more 
inconvenience than is found in gardening. 
Directions for Brewing. —Measure pails and coppers; 
have perfectly clean a mash-tub, with a spigot or wooden 
tap fixed in a wicker basket inside the tub to prevent the 
malt escaping into the liquor, a stand for the same, two tubs, 
a cooler, a masher jet, large sieve, and stand for it. For the 
cellar —sweet casks, a tun, or large tunnel, two large vessels, 
one for the barm or yeast, the other for surplus beer for 
filling up, or a small cask ready tapped is better if it can be 
spared, a rod or whisk to stir the barm and keep it under, a 
large pan to put under every cask to catch the workings 
(the casks must be fixed inclining on one side), or for small 
casks one pan for two inclining to each other. These 
things are necessary for those who brew in large quantities; 
but those who brew in a small way may use a tub as a 
cooler, a bowl as jet, a couple of clean sticks as sieve stand, 
and, indeed, make many other shifts, 
To keep beer twelve months a good cellar is indispensable ; j 
