This marvellous plant was send to us from China by the cleuer and courageous botanist collector M. Fortune, from l’Himalaya, near summet of the Chamalari Macon.
This splendid plant deserves the first rank among all kinds of plant which the botanical science has produce till now in spite of all the new discoveries.
This bulbous plant gives several stems on the same subject. It grows to the height of 6 feet. It is furnished with flowers from bottom to top. The bud looks by his from like a big cannon ball of a heavenly blue. The center is of an aurora yellewish colour. The vegetation of that plant is to fouitfull that when it is near to blossom it gives a great heat when tassing it in hand and when the bud opens it produces a naite Similar to a pistole shot. Immediately the vegetation takes fire and burns like alcohol about an hour and a half. The flowers succeeding one to the other gives the satisfaction of having flowers during 7 or 8 months.
The most intense cold can not hurt this plant and can be culvivated in pots, in appartments or gpeen houses.
Wa call the public attention to this plant as a great curiosity.
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