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Botanic Society, when it was exhibited by Messrs. Parker and Williams, of 
Holloway, and was rewarded by a medal. Two very finely-grown plants, 
exhibited subsequently before the Royal Horticultural Society, and which had 
been continuously in bloom for fifteen months previously, afforded a sufficient 
evidence of its perpetual-blooming habit. 
Stcitice })rofusa, or S. Uattrayana , as it is generally called in Scotland, is shrubby 
at the base of the stem, which is furnished with oblong, or spathulately oblong- 
obovate undulated leaves, somewhat rough, with scattered stellate hairs on the 
surface, and with a ciliated margin. The flowering-stems are from a foot to two 
feet high, narrowly winged, and branched so as to form spreading corymbose 
heads of flowers, which latter consist of a bluish-purple calyx and white corolla, 
much like those of the allied plants. 
This Statice is an invaluable plant for the decoration of warm greenhouses 
and conservatories during the autumn and winter, and a useful auxiliary flower¬ 
ing plant at other seasons. It also forms a most attractive and enduring plant 
for exhibition purposes, its colour being rare among modern specimen plants. 
In order to secure strong plants for the ensuing season’s bloom, it should be 
propagated in August or September, taking the young side-shoots with heels, 
and inserting them in pure sand, in properly prepared pots or pans. 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 they are well rooted, they should be potted 
off into 3-in. 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 they 
fill these, and each successive pot, with roots, they are to be shifted on, and kept 
growing all the winter, in a temperature of 60°, and in a situation well exposed 
to light. By this treatment they form large bushy plants in 11-in. pots by the 
middle of May, and will keep up a profuse succession of bloom from that time 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.—T. M. 
COTONEASTER SIMONSII. 
@ HERE cannot be two opinions about the superior beauty of Cotoneaster 
Simonsii. Its leaves are leaves, as compared with the minute organs pro- 
f duced by other representatives of the genus; and then the berries, which 
are borne four or five together at the axils of the leaves, are of a very 
unique tint of scarlet. Above and beyond all this, however, is the superior 
capacity this variety possesses for growing in the form of a shrub, out in the open 
border, in the most exposed situation, or amidst miscellaneous shrubs. Under 
such conditions, its beautiful and somewhat original contour, its peculiar green 
shining leaves, and its habit, are pleasing and effective in the extreme. Another 
merit to be added to the list is its great freedom of growth, when compared with 
