the depth of the present. The species is native of the moun- 
tains of Carolina. Like most other North American plants, it 
grows with us in the open air; but the buds which contain 
the flowers are apt to be so far affected by our late frosts, 
as to prevent a perfect expansion of the bloom, unless the 
plant has been removed into a greenhouse conservatory or 
some kind of shelter very early in the spring. Should be 
planted in bog-earth, where it attains the height of three 
feet, and sometimes even four. The present variety pro- 
mises, independent of the superior beauty of the flower, 
to be a more valuable acquisition than the old one; as it 
has not the defect of becoming straggling and bare, which 
that has. Propagated by layers, as well as seed. 
@ The pistil, showing the manner in which the small five-cleft calyx con- 
verges round the germen when the corolla has been removed. 5 A stamen. 
c The outline of a detached flower from the old variety, to show the dif- 
ference of size between the two, and the manner of the spotting of the co- 
rolla in that. 
