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to make them most ornamental objects 
in almost any position. 
JUSTICIA (Linn.) Nat. Or. Acan- 
thacece. As winter ornaments of our 
stoves, these plants possess great claims 
on attention, they are of easy manage¬ 
ment, growing freely in peat and loam, 
should be cut down annually in the 
spring, repotted and encouraged to grow, 
that they may produce strong spikes ot 
flowers in the succeeding dull months 
of the year, which they generally do 
without further trouble. Their flowers 
are of various colours; white, purple, 
pink, lilac, yellow, and scarlet, appearing 
respectively in some one or other of the 
species, which are very numerous and of 
nearly equal beauty. 
KALOSANTHES (Haworth.) Nat, 
Ord. Crassulacece. The capacity of this 
genus as an ornament to the greenhouse, 
and the splendour in which it may be 
obtained, were perhaps never more 
fully exemplified than some three years 
since, in the instance of a specimen 
grown by Messrs. Eraser, nurserymen 
of Lea Bridge road, of a variety of A. 
coccinea, called Miniata ; this plant was 
about three feet in diameter, and bad 
upon it at one time upwards of six hun¬ 
dred fully-expanded heads of its brilliant 
scarlet flowers, far exceeding anything 
of the sort previously seen. They delight 
in rich loamy soil, but it must be tho¬ 
roughly drained, or danger may occur 
from too much moisture in the winter 
months: it is advisable with young plants 
to stop the leading shoots twice in a 
season for the first year or two of its 
growth, that compact bushy specimens 
may be obtained, after which they may 
be allowed to flower. A sunny position 
in the greenhouse, where abundance of 
air can be admitted is indispensable at 
all seasons, and in winter but very little 
water should be given, though in the 
warm weather of summer they will take 
it as freely as any other plant, and with 
as much benefit. 
KENNEDYA (Yentenat.) Nat. 
Ord. Leguminosce. Handsome greenhouse 
climber! indispensable to every collec¬ 
tion ; they succeed in an equal mixture of 
peat and loam; should have plenty of pot- 
room, judiciously applied in the spring, 
when the plants first begin to grow, and 
frequent syringing over the foliage in 
the summer months to keep down red- 
spider, to which they are somewhat 
liable; a moderately-sized trellis will 
carry the majority of the species, though 
a few of the strongest have a better 
appearance when attached to the rafters 
or wall of the house. The following are 
well worth attention: Coccinea,Inophylla, 
Marryatte , Monophylla , Nigricans, Pros¬ 
trata and Sterlingii. 
KERRIA (Decandolle.) Nat. Or. 
liosacece. An old and admired inhabit¬ 
ant of our gardens : the only species 
( K . japonic a), better known perhaps as 
Cor chorus japonica, is an excellent plant 
for covering walls, arbours, or similar 
objects in the flower-garden, as it grows 
freely almost anywhere, and produces its 
bright yellow flowers in great profusion 
throughout the summer. 
LABICHEA (He candolle.) N. Or. 
Leguminosae. Handsome New Holland 
plants,[withyellow and crimson blossoms; 
they grow best in sandy peat, and should 
have an airy situation in the greenhouse. 
Only two species are known, L. hipunc- 
tcita and L. lanceolata. 
LACHENALIA (Jacquin.) N. Or. 
liliacece. These lovely little Cape bulbs 
are highly useful to the flower-gardener 
as an early spring flowering plant, and 
among forcing flowers occupy no mean 
station. Their treatment under any cir¬ 
cumstances may be assimilated to that 
of the Hyacinth, except that these plants 
require to be grown in sandy peat. 
LiELIA (Lindley.) N. Ord. Orchi- 
dacece. This genus may be classed among 
the most beautiful of vegetable forms, 
for it is conspicuous even in the order 
to which it belongs. All the species are 
true epiphytes, and consequently will be 
found to thrive more abundantly when 
grown on billets of wood than by any 
other method ; they do not, however, 
refuse to grow in pots of peat and moss, 
but their appearance then is constrained, 
and at variance with the natural elegance 
of the plant; some of them, such as 
