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Excerpt from Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, Vol. 3 One circumstance in the culture ought to be noticed, as adding much to the value of this charming plant. If young seedling plants be carefully stopped while in sixty or forty-eight size pots, so as to prevent their twining, and be thus made to form a branchy or stocky growth, they may be bedded out in parterre, not earlier than the first week in June and will with care form one of the most beau tiful objects that any mass of owers is capable of presenting. The rich verdure of the leaves, which in favourable soil assumes somewhat of the figure of a broad arrow - head, contrasts With the innumerable pure buff-coloured blooms that peep from among them; to which the open intensely purple-tinted eye of the ower affords the finest relief imaginable. There is nothing gorgeous in this display, the whole is softly delicate and chaste: we know of nothing that can compare with it. Seed forms well on these external plants if the autumn be warm and sunny and every capsule, as it acquires the pale brown tint of maturity, either on the exposed plants or those under glass, ought to be carefully preserved, either to be sown or distributed among friends, as we know that many persons lose all their stock in the winter, and are thankful to be re-supplied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."