Nczv and Rare Plants 



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wide, the colour of the tube is rich scarlet, 

 melting into golden yellow at each end." 

 This has been called a greenhouse plant, but 

 although it delights in a cool temperature, 

 growing at elevations of from 10,000 to 

 11,000 feet, it will be found to succeed best 

 in the temperature of an intermediate house. 

 The soil should be a mixture of about one 

 part light good loam, two parts fibrous peat, 

 and one part good leaf-mould and thoroughly- 

 decomposed manure, to which sufficient sand 

 should be added to make the whole gritty ; 

 the pots must be well drained, and care must 

 be taken not to give the plants large shifts, 



as they will be found to thrive much better 

 with small and frequent re-pottings. 



Lisianthus princeps is a native of Pam- 

 plona, in New Grenada, the home of Ada 

 aurantiaca, some of our choicest Odonto- 

 glossums, and many gems of the Orchid world; 

 and as the treatment of these plants is now 

 pretty well understood, there is no reason 

 Avhy we should fail with this plant. Unlike 

 the Orchidaceous plants this member of the 

 Gentian family would appear to be somewhat 

 rare, unless the eyes of collectors have been 

 too often directed upwards to the epiphytes, 

 and the more humble become overlooked. 



