2l6 



The Cowitrv Gciitlcniaiis Masrazine 



tamed. It is better, therefore, to grow it in will form a useful auxiliary to the class there 



a briskish bottom heat, keeping any growths can be no manner of doubt. ^Ve commend, 



that have an undue preponderance within therefore, its cultivation to all whom it may 



bounds. By this means you encourage pro- concern, as being a plant useful for the conser- 



per habit, and the leaves are large, and the vatory, for the boudoir, for dinner-table 



Fig. 4. — Codiaeum (Croton) Veitchii. 



colouring beautiful, worthy, we should say 

 without much flattery, of the name of Veitch. 

 We do not consider, notwithstanding the cha- 

 racter of this certificate, that it will ever 

 rank in first position alongside of Croton un- 

 dulatum, or even of C. pictum, but that it 



purposes, for window-gardening, and, indeed, 

 for every description of in-door gardening. 



CHAM/EROPS FORTUNEI AND C. EXCELSA. 



I liave noticed in several horticultural 

 works and periodicals that it has become: 



