n the former way we may obtain many beautiful varieties.

It prefers a light loamy soil and moderately exposed situation.

Roots of a variety of this plant with scarlet double flowers are
imported from Holland, under the name, of _Anemonoides_, and sold at a
high price.

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IBERIS GIBRALTARICA. GIBRALTAR CANDY-TUFT.

_Class and Order._

TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ irregularis: Petalis 2 exterioribus majoribus. _Silicula_
polysperma, emarginata.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

IBERIS _Gibraltarica_ frutescens foliis apice dentatis. _Linn. Syst.
Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 589._

THLASPIDIUM Hispanicum, ampliore flore folio crasso dentato. _Dill.
Elth. 382. t. 287. f. 37._

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The flowers of this plant, a native of Gibraltar, bear some resemblance
to those of the Common Candy-Tuft, but when they blow in perfection,
they are usually twice as large; hence they are highly ornamental in the
green-house, which early in the Spring, the time of their coming forth,
stands in need of some such shewy flowers.

This plant is easily raised from cuttings, and easily preserved; it may
be kept through the Winter in a common hot-bed frame, and in mild
Winters will stand abroad, especially if sheltered amongst rock-work;
its greatest enemy is moisture in the Winter season, this often proves
fatal to it, as indeed a long continued damp atmosphere does to many
others; the Nurserymen about London complain of losing more plants the
last mild Winter, from this cause, than they generally do from severe
frosts. In a little green-house which I had in my late garden,
Lambeth-Marsh, most of the plants became absolutely mouldy; in such
seasons then, though in point of cold the plants may not require it, we
must dissipate the superfluous moisture by a gentle heat.

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ALSTROEMERIA LIGTU. STRIPED-FLOWER'D ALSTROEMERIA.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ 6-petala, sub-bilabiata: petalis 2 inferioribus basi
tubulosis. _Stamina_ declinata.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

ALSTROEMERIA _Ligtu_ caule erecto, foliis spathulato-oblongis,
pedunculis umbellae involucro longioribus, corolla bilabiata.
_Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. Suppl. p. 207._ _Amoen.
Acad. V. 6. p. 247._

HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus striatis. _Few. Peruv. 2. p. 710.
t. 4._

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