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most especially that we may regard their introduction as a boon 
to those engaged in floricultural pursuits. 
To attempt any minute directions for their cultivation would 
be to suppose jour readers to be ignorant of the first principles 
of cultivating plants. I will, therefore, only remark, that they 
succeed best when planted in situations where the soil is com¬ 
paratively cool and moist during summer ; and that they are best 
(that is, it is most convenient) when they are raised among other 
half-hardy annuals, and transplanted to the situations chosen 
for them. Their success will be, cceterisparibus, in proportion to 
the care bestowed on them. I have seen them thriving equally 
in shaded situations (not under trees), and in exposed places 
where sufficient moisture has been present to the roots. In 
peaty soil they succeed admirably; but I have known them 
equally fine in poor stony soil, planted in an angle of north 
and west aspected ten feet walls, provided they were well 
supplied with moisture at the roots. Water I should therefore 
regard as the most essential requisite in their cultivation, and 
this should be supplied abundantly and effectively, rather than 
frequently. 
The hardiness of these plants, I speak more particularly now 
of I. glanduligera, is not, I think, generally known, nor should I 
have been prepared to believe them capable of enduring so 
great a degree of cold liad I not witnessed it. Late in the 
autumn of last jear, a goodly array of self-sown seedlings made 
their appearance in a spot of ground where a few large plants 
had been growing during the summer ; some of the plants were 
taken up and potted, with a view to protect them, in a cold 
frame ; others, which were left, continued unharmed during the 
winter months, and more appeared early in the spring. It be¬ 
came subsequently necessary to remove these plants, so that they 
cannot now be referred to as living witnesses ; but the fact is in 
itself interesting, and it is worthy the attention of those who 
possess the plant to renew the trial, with a view to ascertain 
what degree of cold it will sustain. The past winter not having 
been a severe one, it may happen that the same will not occur 
again. 
The size attained by these plants, which varies from three to 
eight feet in height, and about the same in diameter, renders it 
quite necessary to exercise some discretion in the selection of a 
