Great care is required in its cultivation, not to give 
it too much water late in the summer, which proves fatal 
to it speedily. It should be kept in a greenhouse, in dry 
calcareous earth, during the winter; and in the summer it 
may be plunged in the open border in a warm sheltered 
situation. It is propagated by cuttings or by seeds, which 
latter are produced in small quantities. 
We may here remark, that the Talinum ciliatum of 
the English Gardens is referred to Calandrinia by M. De- 
candolle, under the name of C. pilosiuscula; that Ca- 
landrinia compressa of Schrader, adopted asa distinct 
species by M. Decandolle, is probably the same; and 
that there is good reason to believe that all these are 
identical with the Talinum ciliatum of the Flora Peruviana, 
from which they are divided by M. Decandolle. 
Je. 
