. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. nd careful removal into pots, they may bemade to bloom far into the winter. Treated as an herbaceous plant, we are not sure that it is perfectly hardy, thosewhich have been noticed by us being kept in a frame through the winter. Thebest mode of managing it, however, is to raise it, early in each spring, from freshseeds, as a tender annual, and permit it to perish in the autumn. By this system,the plants will be more healthy, and the flowers altogether finer. It is advisable to leave one or two of the largest plants entirely for se
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. nd careful removal into pots, they may bemade to bloom far into the winter. Treated as an herbaceous plant, we are not sure that it is perfectly hardy, thosewhich have been noticed by us being kept in a frame through the winter. Thebest mode of managing it, however, is to raise it, early in each spring, from freshseeds, as a tender annual, and permit it to perish in the autumn. By this system,the plants will be more healthy, and the flowers altogether finer. It is advisable to leave one or two of the largest plants entirely for seed, pluckingoiF the flower-buds after a>sufl5cient number of the earliest are expanded, and soallowing the remaining ones a better chance of perfecting their maturation. Fromflowering plants, on the other hand, all the old blossoms may be gathered as theyfade, ?which will cause a greater development of additional ones. Helickryaum is taken from helios, sun, and c/nysos, gold, the blossoms of someof the original species being of a brilliant yellow ? y/f/^Vi Y-i i-tirf/, % 101 STACHYS COCCINEA. (sCARLET-FLOWEHKD HEDGE-NETTLE.)CLASS. ORDKIt. DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. NATURAL ORDER. LABIATvE. Generic Character.—Corolla with the upper lip arched ; lower lip broad, rcfle.\ed ; middle lobe largest, emarginale. Stamens inclining towards the reflexed Character.—T/aKMierbaceous, perennial, growing from a foot to eighteen inches high. Stem square, with obtuse angles. Leaves ovately-cordate, crenatcd, hairy. Flotvers usually six in a whorl, red or scarlet. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, hairy. Tube of Corolla nearly straight. Germeii four-cleft, on a raised flesliy receptacle. Our sole reason for introducing a figure of this valuable old plant is one bywhich we frequently suffer ourselves to be actuated—the desire to restore to generalfavour an extremely showy object, over which a shadow has long rested. Formingone of a large group which every successive se
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