This handsome flowering plant is of hybrid origin,
and was raised from seed at the Nursery of Mr. Col-
vill, produced from a plant received from Sir R. C.
Hoare, under the name of P. Amanda; this had been
fertilized by the pollen of one of the larger sorts, but
we cannot refer with certainty to its variety. The present
plant is far superior in beauty to the original, and
is also of stronger growth, attaining to the middle stature
of the genus. It grows very freely in a mixture
of light sandy loam and peat, and flowers abundantly
all the summer. Cuttings of it strike root readily, if
taken off in a young state: these must be planted in
pots in the same kind of soil, and may be placed on a
shelf in the greenhouse.
Our drawing was taken, in August last, at the
Nursery of Mr. Colvill.
