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autumn, and preserved along with al- 
pines till the following spring. 
LISIANTHUS (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Gentianacece. This genus is of but little 
consequence in a cultural sense since 
the separation of Eustoma from it, to 
which it may be referred for manage¬ 
ment. 
LOASA (Linn.) Nat. Ord. Loasacece. 
Very curious climbing or creeping plants 
of annual duration, having yellow, white, 
or red flowers. The seed should be sown 
in March on a gentle heat, and after 
being gradually hardened the plants may 
be removed to the borders of the flower- 
garden ; the leaves of all the species 
have more or less of the irritating qua¬ 
lities of the common stinging-nettle. 
LOBELIA (Linn.) Nat. Ord. Lo- 
beliacea;. An extensive and varied group 
of highly ornamental plants; those usu¬ 
ally adopted for gardening purposes may 
be divided into two classes, which differ 
so much in general appearance as to 
lead to the supposition that they are 
actually distinct genera, the first in¬ 
cludes the tall-growing species, of which 
L. splendens may be taken as the type, 
and the other is composed of dwarf 
trailing plants, resembling the well- 
known L. erinus. In cultivation the 
former should be grown hi pots or beds 
of the flower-garden, filled with tho¬ 
roughly good loam, enriched with nearly 
one half the quantity of rotten manure 
from an old melon bed, planted in this 
material, and well watered in dry weather, 
they will not fail to grow luxuriantly 
and flower freely. The best of them are 
cardinalis, propinqua, ignea , and fulgens , 
all scarlet, and atroccBndea , cadestris, 
violacea, and syphilitica with its varieties, 
among those having blue flowers. The 
dwarf-growing kinds are composed of 
annual and perennial species ; the first 
should be sown in pots on a gentle heat, 
repotted singly as soon as they can be 
handled, and encouraged to grow in a 
cool frame, that they may be of good 
size when turned into the borders of the 
flower-garden in May; the perennials 
are increased by cuttings, which should 
be taken when the seed of the annuals 
are sown (the middle of March), struck 
in pots of sandy peat in a hot-bed, they 
speedily form roots, and may afterwards 
be treated as recommended for the 
annuals, to which they are preferable, 
inasmuch as they continue to bloom the 
whole of the summer. Cuttings should 
again be taken in July or August, to 
furnish plants for the next year’s supply, 
these strike best in a cold frame, and 
after being potted should be placed out 
of doors till the approach of winter 
rennets it necessary to remove them to 
their respective places, which should be 
as cool, airy, and near to the light as 
circumstances and a regard to frost 
will admit. Z. erinus, e. grandiflora, com- 
pacta, and c. alba, together with the 
annual gracilis , are most usually grown 
in this class. 
LOPHOSPEBMUM (D. Don.) Nat. 
Ord. Scrophdariacece. Handsome green¬ 
house climbers, bearing numerous large 
rosy-purple flowers; they flower well 
when trained against a wall or fence 
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having a south aspect in the flower- 
garden, delighting in an airy position, 
with rich earth to grow in; seed is also 
produced plentifully in such positions; 
and when this is secured, it saves the 
trouble of preserving plants through the 
winter, as if it is sown .early hr March, 
on heat, and brought forward in pots, 
the young plants bloom quite as soon, 
and are generally more vigorous than 
those winch have been kept from the 
preceding year; should the season or 
accident, however, prevent the forma¬ 
tion of seed, it will be necessary to 
strike a number of cuttings in July or 
August, to afford a supply for the next 
season, as it is seldom the old plants 
will bear to be taken up to be again 
potted. 
LUCULIA (Sweet.). Nat. Ord. Cin- 
chonacece. The two species forming this 
genus are among the finest winter flow¬ 
ering plants we possess, as when well 
grown they become covered with large 
heads of lovely pink flowers. The plants 
should be placed when young into large 
pots, well drained, and filled with fibrous 
peat and loam; the encouragement of a 
slight bottom heat and a rather elevated 
humid atmosphere will induce them to 
