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CULTIVATION OF THUNBERGIA. 
flowers, without other enhancement, would soon outrival numbers 
of straggling objects that are tolerated for want of more suitable 
forms. 
Veronica Buxbaumii. 
There is a considerable number of British Speedwells, and not 
one among them but possesses high claims to notice from real 
intrinsic loveliness. Who but admires the lovelv For°;et-me-not, 
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even denuded of the association which its name conveys ? and 
but slightly inferior is the common Brookline (V. beccabunga), 
or Germander {V chamcedrys). The Bock-speedwell (V. sera- 
tilis) is equally esteemed, and the whole of them, we believe, may 
be made to contribute, in some position or other, much to the 
general embellishment of our gardens. 
Editor. 
CULTIVATION OF THUNBEBGIA. 
The object in view, I hope, will be deemed a sufficient apology 
for the liberty of addressing you respecting my success in the culture 
of the Thunbergia in the cottage window, having never seen it but 
in my own, and feeling confident nothing but the supposed diffi¬ 
culty of its being a stove plant can keep it from being extensively 
cultivated for the same purpose; certainly a more interesting and 
suitable object, for the situation, cannot be conceived ; its rich and 
beautiful flowers, produced in such profusion for four months, as 
