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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



The time required for steeping depends on 

 the season. Close, hot, thundery weather, 

 does the work most quickly. 



The following list of plants will be found 

 to succeed without much difficulty : — 



Leaves. 

 Pear, Apple, Poplar, about 3 or 4 weeks. 



Kidney bean ... ,, ,, 



Tulip tree ... ,, 5 or 6 ,, 

 Ivy and holly ... „ 3 or 4 months. 



Magnolia ... „ 



Sycamore ... doubtful time. 



Flowers. 

 Hydrangea ... about C or 7 weeks. 

 (These must be fingered under water.) 



Stramonium Seed-vessel 3 to 5 weeks. 



Calyx of the Atropa Phy- 



saloides ... ... G to 8 ,, 



Wiuter Cherry... ... 



The leaf of any tree that contains caout- 

 chouc is likely to succeed. The Indian 

 rubber leaf may often be found among the 

 refuse of a greenhouse in perfection, only 

 requiring to be bleached. 



N.B. — The vessel of water may be pretty 

 well filled with specimens. Thpy will not 

 injure one another if not too rudely shaken 

 and stirred, and the larva of the gnat breeds 

 in great numbers, and assists in the process, 

 while it is quite harmless to us. 



S. C. S. F. D. 



EUPHORBIA FULGENS. 



This charming inhabitant of our stoves I average not higher than 50° or below 

 is a member of the showy family of|45 Q . Lath/rvs is the caper spurge, a 

 milkworts, or spurges, of which there handsome British species, which should 



are many green- 

 house - herbaceous, 

 perrennial, and an- 

 nual species, but 

 the stove evergreen 

 kinds are those most 

 prized. It is now 

 a well-known plant, 

 having been intro- 

 duced so long ago 

 as 1836, from Mexi- 

 co. * It does well in 

 a dry stove, in 

 light loam, with a 

 little peat, with 

 plenty of old char- 

 coal and potsherds 

 for drainage. When 

 struck from cut- 

 tings, they should 

 be dried at the base, 

 on account of their 

 propensity to bleed, 

 and this renders it 

 a difficult operation 

 to strike them. It 

 is a good plan to 

 partly sever them 

 a week or two be- 

 fore finally cutting 

 them off. It bears heat well, and likes 

 abundance of light during summer, 

 but the winter temperature should 



be in every collec- 

 tion of wild plants. 

 But its name should 

 not lead any one to 

 use it as a substi- 

 tute for capers, for 

 it is poisonous. 

 Among the hardy 

 annuals, Phimosa 

 is the only one worth 

 a place in a garden. 

 The following stove 

 species are extreme- 

 ly beautiful, and 

 well adapted for 

 forcing. Fulgeus is 

 a free and profuse 

 bloomer, producing 

 its umbels of blaz- 

 ing red flowers in 

 August. 



Puuiceaha. valu- 

 able species, on ac- 

 count of the daz- 

 zling crimson co- 

 lour of its fruits ; 

 it does best in rich, 

 strong loam. 



Splendens is an- 

 other very showy 

 species, and Caput Medusa should 

 be grown by those who like curious 

 forms. 



