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this when the sun shines on them. These will require for the last shift 

 of the season pots not more than five inches across at the rim. 



AcHiMENEs are grown in the same way as Gesneras and Gloxinias, 

 but, as the tubers are very small, several are potted together. It is best 

 to give these their first start in peat in the pots in which they have been 

 wintered, giving very little water till they begin to grow. When the 

 tubers have made shoots an inch and a half or two inches long, shake 

 them out and pot them in six-inch pots, six tubers in a pot in equal parts 

 loam and leaf-mould with a little silver sand, or in half turfy loam and 

 half cocoa-nut dust, partially rotted and well mixed together. Large 

 shallow baskets may be filled with them for suspending from the roof 

 of the house, and those who have only a cool greenhouse should place 

 these baskets in a frame over a brisk dung-heat till the plants are strong; 

 then let the heat decline, and transfer the baskets to their places in the 

 house, where the sun-heat will bo sufficient to flower them admirably. 

 They will require a little shade during mid-day hours in blight hot 

 weather, and must have plenty of Avater till they are out of bloom. 

 When grown in pits and frames, the pots in wdiich they are should be 

 stood upon empty pots inverted, and the bed should be always kept 

 moist. Give air regularly, and close early in the afternoon. 



A Selection of Species and Vakieties. — Twelve desirable Species and 

 Varieties of Achimenes. — Atrosanguinea, dark crimson, blooms in August, 

 eighteen inches; Candida, white, July, eighteen inches ; Cupreata, cop- 

 pery scarlet, August, twelve inches ; Escherii, purple and crimson, June, 

 twelve inches ; Floribunda elegans, purple and crimson, October ; Gloxi- 

 niseflora, bufl^', spotted, December; Grandiflora, pale crimson, October, 

 greenhouse, herbaceous ; Intermedia, scarlet, August, twelve inches : 

 Jaureguice, white, carmine eye, October ; Liepmanni, pale crimson, July, 

 eighteen inches ; Longiflora, violet, August, greenhouse, herbaceous ; Mul- 

 tiflora, violet, October, twelve inches. 



Twelve Achimenes for Exhibition. — Ambroise Verschaffelt, white, with 

 radiating crimson eye ; Belmontiensis, reddish violet, dotted with crimson ; 

 Carl Woolfurth, large crimson ; Estelle, rosy purple, white blotch on lower 

 lip ; Prancois Cardinaux, rosy purple ; Carminata splcndens, carmine, rose 

 eye, spotted orange; Longitlora major, violet blue; Margarita;, pure 

 white ; Meteor, rosy scarlet, flushed with purple ; lleticulata, veined all 

 over, profuse flowerer, very interesting ; Sir Trehern Thomas, rich 

 crimson ; Mauve Queen, flowers larger than those of Longiflora major, 

 colour mauve purple, redder about the eye, thickly spotted below the eye 

 with crimson dots on a yellow ground. 



Ta-elve best Gesrieras. — Cinnabarina, splendid foliage ; Elongata Ar- 

 noldii, Doncklaeri, Gioxinia)flora, Markii, Miellenzi, Pyramidalis,Ilefulgens, 

 Velutina ; Zebrina splendidissima, fine foliage ; Purpurea (purple) . 



Twelve droopimf-flowered Gloxinias. — Acme, blue lobes, edged and 

 prettily marked with white, violet throat ; Asprcmonte, broad clear rose 

 lobes, pure white throat, spotted at the base ; Beauty, bright blue lobes, 

 encircled with purple, white throat ; Flora, rose lobes, shaded with violet 

 crimson and marked with white, pure white throat ; Illuminator, beautiful 

 deep crimson, the lobes broadlj^ margined with bright red ; Lauretta, blue, 

 marbled with white, very distinct and attractive ; Matchless, lobes rose, 

 shaded with violet crimson, white mouth, the tube prettily striped and 

 spotted with rose ; Optima, deep rose, encircled with violet, white throat, 



