Plate 356. 



GLOXINIAS, MADAME DE SMET, PRINCE TECK, 

 AND ROSE D' AMOUR. 



Altliougli, as a general rule, the period of blooming of the 

 many beautiful varieties of Gloxinia is after the great Metro- 

 politan shows are held, and, consequently, they are not so 

 much seen there as they would otherwise be, yet sometimes 

 tlu^y are brought forward ; and more especially is this the case 

 with new seedling varieties ; the same reason, however, indi- 

 cates their usefulness for the decoration of the conservatory, 

 after the spring and summer occupants have finished flowering, 

 for when Pelargoniums have been cut down, and Azaleas been 

 put out of doors, then the Gloxinias and Achimenes take 

 their place, and give, during the later months of summer, a 

 beautiful and interesting display. 



Tlie cultivation of the Gloxinia is so well known, and has 

 been so often treated of in various numbers of the ' Floral 

 Magazine,' that it will be unnecessary to repeat the directions 

 on this head. Tt will be seen that Madame de Smet (Fig. 1 ) 

 occupies a somewhat midway position between the upright and 

 drooping varieties. The flowers are of large size, and of great 

 substance ; the colour, a beautiful bright lavender or mauve, 

 and very freely produced. It received a first-clnss certificate 

 from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 and at the Eoyal Botanic Society's June show. Prince Tcck 

 (Fig. 2) belongs to the upright section, and is a flower of very 

 regular outline, the colour of the lobes being a beautiful bright 

 purple with a deeper shade of the same colour at the base of 

 each. Eose d'Amoiir (Fig. .3) is a large flower of drooping 

 habit, the colour being a brilliant carmine rose, white at the 

 base, and the throat slightly spotted with ro.se on a yellowish 

 mound ; it will thus be seen that three ditt'erent strains of this 



