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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Malvaceae. Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Hibiscus Moscheutos (Linn.). This noble plant, although one 
of the oldest inhabitants of our gardens, is seldom seen in culti¬ 
vation. According to the learned authors of the Flora of North 
America, it inhabits the borders of marshes, particularly near 
the salt water in Canada, and throughout the United States, 
flowering in the months of August and September. They de¬ 
scribe it thus : stem three to five feet high, minutely tomentose ; 
leaves about five inches long and three wide, rather obtuse at the 
base, with a long acumination, often with three short abruptly- 
aeuminate lobes, velvety tomentose beneath ; peduncles axillary, 
two inches long, articulated a little below the flower, often 
coalescing with the petiole to a considerable distance above the 
base; flowers as large as in the common hollyhock, rose-colour, 
or sometimes nearly white, crimson at the centre ; petals obovate, 
retuse ; stamineal column one third the length of the petals; 
styles exserted; capsule as large as in H. Syriacus. 
This splendid hardy herbaceous plant thrives best in a 
mixture of sandy loam and peat, to which should be added a 
small portion of well-decomposed cow-dung. It grows from 
three to four feet high, and flowers in September and October. 
Although quite hardy, it is very impatient of wet when in a state 
of rest, and is best treated as a pot plant in the following way : 
About the middle of March repot the plant, and place it in a 
close damp pit where there is a little heat to start it; and as the 
plant produces many young shoots, select five or six of the 
strongest, and remove all the others as they are produced; after¬ 
wards water freely, and keep the plant in a rather moist pit 
through the summer. It will then flower freely during the 
autumn, which, if planted out in the open border, it never does. 
When done flowering, withhold moisture first from the atmosphere 
of the pit, and afterwards gradually from the roots, until the 
soil in the pot becomes quite dry, when the pot may be stowed 
away in a dry cellar, or similar place, until the following March, 
when it will be ready for starting again.— Bot. Reg. 7-47. 
