The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . and gentlemen of taste, to develop the love of ornamen-tal foliaged plants, as indispensable adjuncts to every summergarden. Of this class is the Nicotiana macrophylla gigantea(fig. 2,) one of the species of tobacco, but so gigantic in foli-age, and showy with its large purple flowers, that it mustform a prominent feature of the lawn and pleasure rapidity of growth is only equalled by the showiness of a wellcultivated specimen; our experience with it the last season 56 THE MAGAZINE O
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . and gentlemen of taste, to develop the love of ornamen-tal foliaged plants, as indispensable adjuncts to every summergarden. Of this class is the Nicotiana macrophylla gigantea(fig. 2,) one of the species of tobacco, but so gigantic in foli-age, and showy with its large purple flowers, that it mustform a prominent feature of the lawn and pleasure rapidity of growth is only equalled by the showiness of a wellcultivated specimen; our experience with it the last season 56 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. is but the result of many similar errors of cultivators everyyear. A few seeds were sown and a dozen or more plantsraised in pots, as it was new; these were shifted from time totime, and grown on as pot plants, without any very satisfac-tory results. Accidentally two plants were turned out intothe open ground; the growth was immense, and before frostthe plants had attained the height of six feet, with leaves threefeet long and numerous heads of large tubular showy 2. NICOTIANA MACROPHYLLA G1GAKTEA. Such is the character of this Nicotiana, which forms a trulygrand object, and associated with the Wigandia, and otherlarge foliaged plants, presents a marked aspect in the in good season, potted off in three inch pots, andturned out into rich soil the end of May, the plants obtainthe height of ten feet. We shall soon give a fall list of the most prominent plantsrecommended in the catalogue above referred to. FEBRUARY. 57 FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. Chinese Primroses.—Great attention has been given tothis beautiful winter-flowering plant, within a few years, andhighly improved varieties have been the result. We recentlysaw at Mr. I. Buchannans place in New York, several hundredpots of seedlings, many of them half-double, and a few quitedouble, of various shades of red, showing that with due caresome very perfect flowers may be obtained. The
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