CHAP. I.XXXIII.

CORMIA'CEJE.

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C. s cop&rius I.., and C .JUridm L., are natives of the Canaries, where they form trailing shrubs ,from 1 ft. to 3 ft. in height; and they might probably be treated as half-hardy.

CHAP. LXXXII.

OF THE HARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS BELONGINGTO THE ORDER RORAGINA'CEiE.

tt L itkospiirmum fruticosum L. [Gnrid. Aix., p. 68. 1.15.) is a native of the south of Europe andnorth of Africa, where it forms a shrub from 1 ft. to 3 ft. high, producing its blue flowers in Mayand June. It was introduced in 1683, but is not common in collections.

ti. L. fruticosum majus Lehm.; L. rosmarinifblium Tenor e, Bot. Reg., 1.1736.; and our Jig. 1101.is a native of Naples, and on the mountains of the Grecian Archipelago.

L. prostrdium Lois. FI. Gall., 1. p. \ ] Q2

105. t. 4., is a prostrate suffruticose plant,a native of France. Introduced in 1825.

The corolla is of a bluish purple; andthe whole plant is pilose and canescentIt is, in all probability, only a variety ofL. fruticosum.

E'chiwn L. There are some species ofthis genus natives of Teneriffb, the Ca-nary Islands, and Madeira, on rocks.

They have mostly splendid blue or whiteflowers, and some of them, such as E. gi-gantfeum, grow as high as 10 ft. On dryrockwork, in a warm sheltered situation,we have no doubt they would all provehalf-hardy. E. candicans L., Bot. Beg.,and t. 44., our Jig. 1102., is one of the mostcommon species in British green-houses,s a native of Madeira, on high rocks ;

: introduced in 1777; grows to theheightof from 2 tt. to 4 ft.; and produces /its blue, campanulate flowers in May and fJune.

Heliotrbpium peruvianum L., H. p.hijbridum Hort. Brit., and H. cortjm -7A bbsum Ruiz et Pav., Bot. Mag., 1.1609.,

I Hu are Peruvian under-shrubs, well knownfor their fragrant flowers, and on that account introduced into every flower-garden. Plants arc raised bycuttings early in spring; and, being turned out into a bed of rich light soil, they flower freely all thesummer, till they are destroyed by frost. Two or three stock plants should be kept through thewinter, in the green-house or pit, to be ready to be placed in a hot-bed or stove, in order to furnishabundance of cuttings in spring. (See the mode of treating Rosa indica by Mr. Elies, noticed p. 891.)

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CHAP. LXXXIII.

OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER CORD lit CEM.

Ekriti a serrata Roxb. Cor., 1. 1 . 55., and our Jig. 1103., is alow tree, a native of the East Indies and China. Introducedin 1795, and generally kept in stoves; but a plant has stood,since 1830, against a wall in the Horticultural Society’s Gar-den ; where it grows rapidly, flowers freely, and appearsquite hardy. A plant, as a standard, in the open garden, atMessrs. Loddiges’s, has the shoots killed down every year towithin 1 ft. of the ground; but the stool sends out freshshoots every spring, which generally attain the height of 3 ft.or 4 ft. in the course of the summer, and make a fine appear-ance, from the large size of their leaves. The circumstanceof a plant like this, a native of the East Indies, and so longconsidered as a stove plant in England, having lived in theopen garden for several years; and, against a wall, having notonly lived, but flowered freely; ought to be a great encourage-ment to cultivators to try almost every kind of plant, what-ever be its native country, in the open air, when they havean opportunity. We do not recommend the trial of scarceand valuable stove plants; and from the palms, Orchid&cea;,and other endogenous orders or tribes, perhaps little is tobe hoped for in the way of acclimatisation : but all her-baceous plants that die down annually to the ground, andall exogenous ligneous plants, deserve a trial, when a plantcan be spared without injuring the collection to which itbelongs. If, after a thousand trials, one species only shouldhave proved sufficiently hardy to endure the open air in ourclimate, the recompense to the cultivator will be ample.het him not forget , in making experiments of tills kind, thatAucuba japbnica was originally treated as a stove plant, andK^rrr'rt japonica as an inhabitant of the green- house.

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