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casional “ stopping,” as may appear desirable, in the growing 
season, will not fail to form a handsome dwarf spreading bush, 
with a copious display of its lively yellow, gracefully pendent 
flowers. Its treatment, we understand, is exactly that usually 
pursued with B . spleiidens , when required for bedding out, and 
in the same situations makes an equally ornamental object: 
it has hitherto refused to bloom so well as could be wished 
under a forcing regimen, — the flowers thus produced being 
smaller, and the colour watery and undecided; but with 
abundance of air, as it would receive either in a greenhouse or 
the open air, the opposite may be considered the rule. It is, 
we believe, like the other known species, a native of Mexico 
and the adjacent parts of the northern division of the continent 
of America, and this will account for their insisting on an open 
airy situation. 
The proper treatment of this and the other^ well-known 
species appears so intimately blended, and they are so univer¬ 
sally included in the list of half-hardy bedding plants, that we 
need not do more than glance at its leading features. They 
are propagated by cuttings of the new wood, taken off in 
spring; these readily root in a bottom-heat of 65° or 70°, and 
grow rapidly in peat and loam, with a somewhat reduced tem¬ 
perature. After becoming thoroughly established in the pots, 
they are turned into the open ground as soon as danger from 
frost is past; and if planted in light rich earth, grow and flower 
profusely. In the autumn they are taken up and repotted, and 
should be kept in a cool pit, or on a light shelf in the green¬ 
house, with as low a temperature as is consistent with safety 
from frost; any excess of either heat or moisture being par¬ 
ticularly injurious to them at this part of the year. Pro¬ 
pagation may also be effected when a large quantity is 
required, by means of pieces of the rhizoma or root, which, if 
divided into lengths of about two inches, and potted, to receive 
the treatment recommended for cuttings, speedily burst into 
leaf, and ultimately make equally useful plants. For the 
flower-garden, the beds intended for them should be in a sunny 
position, well drained, and composed of peat, leaf-mould, and 
loam thoroughly broken up, and well mixed : here the rich 
luxuriant green of the foliage, and vivid tints of the flowers, 
betoken the fitness of both soil and situation. — Ed. 
