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PIMELEA HENDEESONI. 



fULY is a convenient time in which to take in hand a } 7 oung healthy plant 

 of the above-named Pimelea. Such a plant should be kept in the open air, 

 %% well exposed to the influence of the sun, from the beginning till about the 

 y middle of the month, in order to ripen its wood. It should then be cut 

 down, leaving about an inch of the last season's growth for the plant to break 

 from. The soil must be allowed to become moderately dry before cutting over, 

 and the plant should still remain in the open air, merely providing protection 

 against heavy rains, in case it should be required. This point must be strictly 

 attended to, as with hard-wooded plants it is almost certain destruction if the 

 soil becomes waterlogged, and especially so if this should happen when the plant- 

 is divested of the greater part of its foliage. In about a fortnight after cutting, 

 if all has gone right, the young growth will begin to push, and by the middle of 

 August the plant will require a shift into a pot a size larger. Let the drainage 

 be ample, and on the top of it place some rough fibry peat to keep it in working 

 order. Use good fibrous peat, broken up into small pieces, add to this about an 

 eighth part of its bulk of yellow loam, and a sufficient quantity of silver sand to 

 cause the water to pass freely through. Pot firmly, and in doing so keep the 

 stem of the plant sufficiently elevated to make a slight fall from it to the pot- 

 rim. Attend well to the operation of watering ; when water is given let a suffi- 

 cient quantity be applied to cause it to pass freely through the whole mass of 

 soil. By the end of September the plant should be removed from the open air 

 to a cool, airy greenhouse, and be placed in such a position that the young growth 

 may be within a foot and a half of the glass, while plenty of air must be admitted 

 oxi all favourable occasions. In this position the plant should remain until the 

 flower-buds begin to expand, when it should be removed a little farther away. 

 When blooming is over, the plant is to be treated in every way as recommended 

 above. , If two or three plants of this Pimelea are grown, they may be made to 

 bloom in succession by pinching out the tops of the shoots, at intervals of a fort- 

 night, from the beginning of February till the middle of March. 



Somerley Gardens. Henry Chilman. 



NEW CROTONS. 



'OST cultivators of stove plants appreciate the merits of the several 

 variegated Crotons known in gardens as C. variegatum, C. pictum, and 

 0. lineare, as the fine, specimens produced and their frequent appearance 

 at exhibitions sufficiently testify. These, however, are quite superseded 

 by some of the many noble varieties of this variable species (more correctly called 

 Codieeum variegatum), which were obtained for our gardens by Mr. John Gould 

 Veitch, during his trip to the South Sea Islands ; and of two of which we are 

 enabled, through the courtesy of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, to offer illustrations. 



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