It is more usual with Nurserymen to increase this plant by cuttings.

Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered this Spring, with Mr. COLVILL, Nurseryman, King’s-Road, Chelsea.

It flowers most part of the Summer, but not so freely as many other stove-plants.

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RUBUS ARCTICUS.  DWARF BRAMBLE.

Class and Order.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus.  Petala 5. Bacca composita acinis monospermis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

RUBUS arcticus foliis ternatis, caule inermi unifloro. Linn.  Syst. 
      Vegetab. p. 476.

RUBUS humilis flore purpureo. Buxb.  Cent. 5. p. 13. t. 26.

RUBUS trifolius humilis non spinosus, sapore et odore fragariae, fructu
      rubro polycocco. Amm.  Ruth. 185.

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The Rubus arcticus grows wild in the northern parts of Europe and America, in moist, sandy, and gravelly places.  LINNAEUS has figured and minutely described it in his Flora Lapponica, out of gratitude, as he expresses himself, for the benefits reaped from it in his Lapland journey, by the nectareous wine of whose berries he was so often recruited when sinking with hunger and fatigue; he observes that the principal people in the north of Sweden make a syrup, a jelly, and a wine, from the berries, which they partly consume themselves, and partly transmit to Stockholm, as a dainty of the most delicious kind; and truly he adds, of all the wild Swedish berries this holds the first place.

Our figure does not correspond altogether with LINNAEUS’s description, but it is drawn as the plant grew; culture doubtless made it produce more than its usual number of flowering stems and petals.

It grows readily and increases rapidly in bog-earth, on a north border, and flowers in May and June, but very rarely ripens its fruit in Gardens.

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HYACINTHUS COMOSUS.  TWO COLOURED, or, TASSEL
HYACINTH.

Class and Order.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Corolla campanulata:  pori 3-melliferi germinis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

HYACINTHUS comosus corollis angulato-cylindricis:  summis sterilibus
      longius pedicellatis. Linn.  Syst.  Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. 336.

HYACINTHUS comosus major purpureus. Bauh.  Pin. 42. The purple faire
      haired Jacinth; or Purse tassels. Park.  Parad. p. 117.

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Most of the old Botanists arranged this plant, the racemosus, and others having almost globular flowers with the Hyacinths.  TOURNEFORT, struck with the difference of their appearance, made a distinct genus of them under the name of Muscari, in which he is followed by MILLER, and should have been by LINNAEUS, for they differ so much that no student would consider the present plant as belonging to the same genus with the Hare-bell.