It reguires to be grown in heath mould, mixed with about 
one-fourth silver-sand. A free drainage is indispensably 
necessary, for there is perhaps no tribe more easily injured by 
stagnant water, than the one to which this species belongs. 
In spring, after the flowering season, all weak twigs should be 
cut off, and the strong shoots, made the previous year, cut 
well back; this will secure an abundant supply of young 
wood, for flowering, the following season. During summer, 
this plant will be much benefited by being placed out of doors, 
in some sheltered place, where it may be partially shaded from 
the mid-day sun. In winter, plenty of air should be given in 
fine weather, and water always when the soil becomes dry on 
the surface. It strikes freely from cuttings of half ripe wood, 
in silver-sand, under a bell glass. 
