has not been observed here, except when the plant has been 
kept for some time iia peculiarly warm damp situation. 
It is plain that this new comer will supersede the 
long-standing florida. It is propagated with the greatest 
facility, and by management may be made to flower nearly 
the year round. When a flower dies, two new branches ap- 
pear by the side of its stalk, each of which, if the plant is 
continued in the hothouse, will soon produce a flower in its 
turn, and so on in succession. But florida is a plant of 
more difficult management, flowers only once in the year, 
and that far more shily; takes more room, and has no su- 
periority in beauty. A cutting of radicans, as soon as it 
has taken root, will bear a flower. 
The nurserymen generally keep their stock of these plants, 
from the autumn till about March, in the greenhouse, and 
then plunge them into a common hotbed; by which means 
they are presently brought into bloom. Plants so treated 
last longer, and continue more healthy, than when kept 
constantly in the hothouse, — ~ 
Much cultivated in China, from whence it was. sent by: 
Mr. William Kerr in 1804, to the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, in the Henry Addington, Captain 
Kirkpatrick. ; 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville,, 
King’s Road, Little Chelsea. Plants of it are now frequent 
in all the principal nurseries near London, being most 
justly in great request. ; 
