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IAlliflorus, native of Mauritius, scarlet flowers; JIutabilis, native of East 

 Indies, changeable flowers ; Rosa sinensis, East Indies and China, red 

 flowers ; Tiliaceous, native of East Indies, flowers yellow and rose. 

 To grow these, the soil should consist of light, rich loam, with no 

 admixture of peat, and whether grown in pots or borders, there 

 must be effectual drainage, or the trees soon become sickly. If kept 

 in ordinary stove temperature, and with what is understood as good 

 stove treatment, these plants will occasion the cultivator but little 

 trouble to grow them in perfection. The simplest and most effective 

 way to deal with them is to form them into trees, with clean stems and 

 open heads, by a regular course of cultivation. Young plants should be 

 encouraged to grow to a reasonable height, without stopping, to have 

 stout, straight stems ; they may then be stopped, and encouraged to 

 throw out side-shoots, which are to be removed a few at a time, com- 

 mencing at the base of the stem, and proceeding upwards, until the 

 lowest branches of the head are reached. By this plan, strong straight, 

 tree-like stems are formed; whereas, by suppressing the shoots, except 

 such as are wanted for the head, the stem is likely to be weak 

 and twisted. If an early bloom is desired, however, it will be best 

 to allow the plants to grow in their own way, except to pinch back 

 or shorten a shoot occasionally, to preserve a moderate regularity. 

 All the tree kinds will thrive in pots, and the best time to shift them 

 is immediately after they have done flowering. Let them first be mode- 

 rately pruned back, and in the course of eight or ten days they may be 

 turned out of their pots, a portion of the old soil removed from their 

 roots, and repotted in the same or larger pots according to circum- 

 stances. One of the most interesting of the arboreous species, is 

 mutdbilis. This requires abundance of root-room, and is best planted 

 out in a border of rich loam, and allowed to grow in its own way with 

 very little interference with the pruning knife. It soon forms a mag- 

 nificent tree, and will grow to a height of five and twenty feet if 

 encouraged. When in flower, it is one of the most interesting plants 

 of the stove. The flowers open in the morning a yellowish green 

 colour ; in the course of an hour or two they become white ; at noon 

 they acquire a tinge of red, and as the day draws to a close, they 

 become a full bright crimson colour; after which, they quickly perish, 

 and are succeeded by others, each individual blossom lasting but one 

 day only. The most handsome of the shrubby kinds, are : Abel- 

 moschus, native of India, yellow flowers. Bifurcatus, native of Brazil, 

 purple flowers. Cameroni fulgens, native of Madagascar, red flowers. 

 Ficuloides, native of Ceylon', yellow and purple flowers. Lilacinus, 

 JSTew Holland, lilac flowers. Lindleiji, Burmah, purplish crimson 

 flowers. Piilchcllus, East Indies, crimson flowers. Eosa Ilalabarica, 

 East Indies, scarlet flowers. Splendens, New Holland, rose coloured 

 flowers. Telfairioe, native of Mauritius, red flowers. Unidens, native 

 of Brazil, yellow and pink flowers. The treatment of these does not 

 o-reatly vary from that required by those previously described ; but, as 

 a rule, they prefer a lighter soil and less root-room. The best compost 

 for these is one consisting of two parts turfy loam, with one part 

 leaf-mould, and one part tibry peat. These may be formed into very 

 neat compact specimens, by carefully pruning in after flowering, and 



