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repotting into the same pot.*, until they acquire such a size as to 

 render it imperative to increase the root room. Lindleifi is a magnifi- 

 cent species introduced from Ava, by Dr. Wallich, in 1838. It grows 

 freely in loam and peat, and forms a handsome shrub, with light green 

 three-lobed leaves, and flowering profusely all winter and spring; the 

 flowers a brilliant purplish crimson colour, and three inches in diameter. 

 Mctdoides; the fig-leaved hibiscus, will flower almost the whole year 

 round, if the roots are cramped in a small pot, and the pot kept in the 

 hottest part of the stove. All the stove species are easily increased 

 by cuttings. For this purpose, take young shoots with a heel, and 

 plant them in pans of sandy peat, under bell-glasses on a brisk bottom- 

 heat, and they will root quickly. In all cases the young plants should 

 be grown in peat till large enough to require 48-size pots, when they 

 may have the compost required by mature plants. 



The stove herbaceous species require rather different management 

 from the arboreous kinds ; they must have less water when the season 

 arrives for them to die down, and at the same time should he placed in 

 the coolest part of the house. As soon as they commence growing 

 again, let them be shaken out and repotted in light rich soil. They 

 require abundance of water while growing. The most desirable stove 

 herbaceous specie3 are the following: — Crinitus, native of Burmah, 

 flowers yellow and red. Speciosas, native of Carolina, flowers crimson, 

 grows in marshes and hence requires an abundance of water while 

 growing. Ftircatus, East Indies, flowers yellow. Jerroldianus, Brazil, 

 flowers crimson, grows six feet high, and is a superb species. Manihot, 

 East Indies, yellow flowers. 



GrREEXHOUSE Species. — The treatment recommended for the stove 

 species is precisely that required for these, with the single exception 

 that a lower temperature suffices to bring them to perfection. These are 

 all of less vigorous growth than the stove species, but they are well 

 worth adding to the choicest collections for the sake of their cheerful 

 leafage and showy flowers. The largest of the group is Heterophyllus, 

 from New South Wales, with white and red flowers. This forms a fine 

 shrub, six to twelve feet high. Strigosus, native of South America, 

 with rosy flowers, makes a fine shrub, eight or ten feet high. Peduncu- 

 latus, from the Cape of Good Hope, flowers red, requires an interme- 

 diate house, or if grown in an ordinary greenhouse, it must be kept 

 rather dry all winter, and be well roasted in autumn. Richardsoni, from 

 New South Wales, with yellow flowers, is a neat shrub, growing three 

 or four feet high. Racemosus, from Nepaul, flowers yellow, is usually 

 grown in the stove, which is too hot a place for it. It is at home in 

 the greenhouse, and is, in fact, nearly hardy. In handling this species 

 be careful to keep the hands covered if possible, for the stem is thickly 

 covered with hairs, which, when pressed by the hand, occasion a sting- 

 ing seu>ation. Gossypium and Grossularicefolia, the first with yellow 

 aud the second witn rosy flowers, are useful species in addition to the 

 foregoing. 



Hardy Herba-CEOUs Species require a wet soil of a rich mellow 

 character. None of them are thoroughly hardy, and hence it is only 

 in a few sheltered places that they can be depended on to survive a 

 •severe winter if left out of doors. They are, however, valuable subjects 

 for the decoration of the margins of lakes, and for gardens subject 



