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a border, cover one inch, and you will secure one of the 
most chaste and beautiful of borders. 
Tigridias .—These are very easy subjects to manage, 
and there are no flowers more beautiful or showy. They 
delight in a rich loam and rather a moist situation. Plant 
two inches deep as soon as the soil is light and warm. 
They increase quite rapidly by division, the smallest bulbs 
Chilian Pitcher Flower (Flowers Scarlet), 
flowering freely. Take up after the first frost, tie them 
in a bunch without cutting off the tops, and hang up in a 
room free from frost, where mice cannot reach them. 
If among those of our subscribers who ordered the 
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CHILIAN PITCHER FLOWER. 
(Sarmienta Repens .) 
T HIS charming little plant constitutes a genus of the 
natural order Gesneracece; it is a native of the 
cool regions of Chili and Peru, consequently will succeed 
well in the ordinary greenhouse. It is of a climbing or 
creeping habit, easily cultivated, and admirably adapted 
for growing in baskets, for the decoration of the con¬ 
servatory or for planting on rockwork, over which it will 
creep, and thus form a beautiful object. It branches 
very profusely, and when [planted in a basket its slender, 
wiry, creeping stems hang gracefully over the sides, and 
for a long time during spring bear a profusion of bright 
scarlet tubular flowers, which are very showy. It is not 
at all adapted for the living-room, or other than a cool, 
moist situation, and should be planted in damp moss; it 
must not be exposed to a strong light. The leaves are 
opposite, somewhat fleshy and hairy, forming a dense 
mat, among which its [tiny flowers sparkle in the most 
delightful manner. 
