The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany . in several respects, which will be readily perceived by comparison, As regards its cultivation, it succeeds best in a warm part of the should be potted in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. The plants are apt togo off when they get to a considerable size, by the small fibres getting around of the pot; to prevent which the pot should be placed within another of alarger size, and the space between filled up with moss, sand, or soil. It is readilyincreased by cuttings of the young wood placed in sand and in a gentle heat.
The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany . in several respects, which will be readily perceived by comparison, As regards its cultivation, it succeeds best in a warm part of the should be potted in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. The plants are apt togo off when they get to a considerable size, by the small fibres getting around of the pot; to prevent which the pot should be placed within another of alarger size, and the space between filled up with moss, sand, or soil. It is readilyincreased by cuttings of the young wood placed in sand and in a gentle heat. For the derivation of the generic name, see an interesting account of thediscovery of the original species, by Labillardiere, in vol. 2, p. 18 of the Flor. Cab. The specific name varium was applied in consequence of two or three varietieshaving been raised from the same seeds, one of which had the leaves nearly freefrom spines. Fig. 1, standard; 2,2, wings; 8, inflated keel; 4, calyx; 5, calyx with thesegments removed to show the germ and
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