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Excerpt from Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower-Garden and Shrubbery, 1838, Vol. 24: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Plants and Shrubs, Culitvated in British Gardens; Accompanied by Their History, Best Method of Treatment in Cultivation, Propagation, &C.; And Monthly Chronicle of Botanical and Horticultural News
It is difficult to conceive any thing more brilliant than. The appearance of this species, when its rich vermilion coloured ?owers are formed beneath the in?uence of a Mexican sun; but if it is grown in a shaded situation, with too much heat and moisture, the bright colours inevitably fade, and the plant is deprived of half its beauty. It will no doubt prove a robust shrub of easy culture, growing freely in a mixture of loam and peat in the green-house; cuttings of the young wood will strike freely in sand under a bell-glass on a moderate hot-bed. It is probably about as hardy as F. Arborescens, and perhaps like that species not enough so to stand the winter, or to ?ower well in the open border, but it will certainly grow and ?ower freely in the green-house and it is by no means impossible that it may even succeed in the open air in good summers, in a warm sheltered situation.
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