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perfection, they require the protection of a cold frame, and as they 

 can be most successfully cultivated in pots, that is the best way of 

 growing them. When in bloom they can be brought into the con- 

 servatory, v?here, if placed in a shady position, they remain in a 

 beautiful fresh condition for a considerable time. 



Some five years since, I purchased half-a-dozen thrifty plants of 

 P. cortusoides amcena, and, as they have been grown on without 

 division, they are now really spleudid specimens. Since then I have 

 added P. cortusoides amcena alba, which has white flowers, and P. cor- 

 iusoidos amcena lilacina, a lovely thing, with flowers of a beautiful 

 shade of mauve lilac. These are doing well, but they are not so 

 large, for the plants were smaller, and I have not had them the 

 same length of time. They are all managed in precisely the same 

 manner. After they go out of bloom in the spring, they are re- 

 moved from the conservatory to a cold frame in a sliady position. 

 They are regularly supplied with water, and freely exposed to rains. 

 In June they are placed out of doors for the summer, a shady 

 position is selected for them, and they are watered as often as may 

 appear desirable. As they are in a comparative state of rest, they 

 do not require so much water as at other seasons of the year. 

 Nevertheless, the soil is not allowed to become dust dry. Early in 

 September they are repotted, the larger specimens are turned out 

 of the pots, the ball of soil reduced, and shifted into clean pots of 

 the same size ; the smaller plants are shifted into pots one size 

 larger. In reducing the balls the roots are injured as little as pos- 

 sible, and a few of the longest are trimmed slightly. By this 

 system I have been able to renew a considerable proportion of the 

 soil annually, without increasing the size of the pot beyond a certain 

 limit. They appear to thrive in a rather rich and open compost 

 prepared for them — amixture consisting of leaf-mould and thoroughly- 

 decayed manure a part each, and turfy loam three parts — and in this 

 they grow with great vigour. As strong plants can be purchased 

 for a shilling or so eacli, the varieties mentioned above are especially 

 suited to the requirements of the amateur with limited means. ^ 



ANTHUEIUM SCHERZERIANUM. 



BT "B. S. WILLIAMS, 

 Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway. 



HE heauti^al Ajithurium Scherzerianum deservedly occupies 

 a high position among flowering plants requiring a stove 

 temperature. And well does it deserve this distinction, 

 lor it is alike remarkable for its neat yet graceful habit, and 

 the glorious appearance it presents when well furnished 

 with its brilliant-coloured spathes. This species differs, as possibly 

 many readers of the Floeal World are aware, from all the other 

 Anthuriums. Instead of the huge shield-shaped velvety leaves 

 which constitute the chief beauty of such kinds as A. magnificum, 

 which is so frequently met with in competitive groups of orna- 



