. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . flower stems are one totwo feet high, rising above the foliage, branching, and pro-fusely covered with large bright rosy lilac blossoms, forming ahighly ornamental and elegant object for several weeks. As a guide to amateurs who have limited space we wouldrecommend B. fuchsoides, rosea carminata, manicata, nitida,parviflora and Verschaffeltii, as combining the most meritamong the several kinds. 508 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. THUNBERGIA LAURIFOLIA. BY THE EDITOR. The Thunbergias are all bea
. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . flower stems are one totwo feet high, rising above the foliage, branching, and pro-fusely covered with large bright rosy lilac blossoms, forming ahighly ornamental and elegant object for several weeks. As a guide to amateurs who have limited space we wouldrecommend B. fuchsoides, rosea carminata, manicata, nitida,parviflora and Verschaffeltii, as combining the most meritamong the several kinds. 508 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. THUNBERGIA LAURIFOLIA. BY THE EDITOR. The Thunbergias are all beautiful climbing plants. , introduced some years ago, was a very elegantspecies, but on account of its rather difficult management itsoon disappeared from our collections. T. alata and its sev-eral varieties are favorite garden flowers, blooming abundant-ly all summer, and even when brought into a warm housecontinue to display their pretty yellow or orange-coloredblossoms. But for indoor culture none of them equal the new andtruly beautiful T. laurifolia, (fig. 26,) with its large smooth. THUNBERGIA LAURIFOLIA. glossy laurel-shaped leaves, and its very large trumpet-shaped intense blue flowers two to three inches in begin to open in November and continue to expandnearly all winter, when the plants are placed in a suitablehouse. They appear in clusters of two or three or more flow-ers and remain expanded several days. NOVEMBER, 509 The treatment of the plants is very simple. They are eas-ily raised from cuttings in the months of March or April, andwhen well rooted they should be potted off in a light rich soilof well rotted leaves, peat and sand. They should have awarm situation either in the hothouse or hotbed, till well es-tablished, when they should be shifted and removed to thegreenhouse. During the summer they will need no otherattention than rather liberal watering ; towards autumn theywill need their last shift into the flowering pots, which should
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