THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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the family of Thymelacese, requiring the 

 same treatment as Cape heaths. It grows 

 two feet high, and produces white flowers. 

 Derchemia Jioribunda and lineata. — 

 Rhamniceous twiners, now producing 

 •white flowers in abundance. They are 

 very nearly hardy, and are useful plants 

 for an unheated conservatory. 



Bignonia capreolata. — We have had 

 this festooning the rafters of an unheated 

 lean-to, where it grew superbly in a deep 

 border of loam from roasted turfs, mixed 

 with old plaster and old hot-bed dung. 

 All it needs is patience, and when it has 

 made free growth overhead it is sure to 

 bloom superbly. The flowers are scarlet. 

 It is of no use in a pot. 



Clethra quercifolia. — An almost hardy 

 Mexican evergreen Ericaceous shrub. In 

 a warm house it blooms from the middle 

 of April to the middle of May, the flowers 

 white; the plant miy be got up to ten feet 

 high, if a fine specimen is desired. Treat 

 the same as Erica. 



Clianthus Dampieri. — This gorgeous 

 glory pea of New Zealand leaves all others 

 of its race far in the rear. It is strictly 

 biennial, and therefore invariably perishes 

 after flowering, so that a succession of 

 plants should be secured. Quick growth 

 is essential ; the slightest check causes an 

 outbreak of red spider. 



Clianthus puniceus has been eclipsed 

 by the more showy C. Dampieri, but it is 

 still worth growing, and has stood the 

 winter out of doors on south walls in 

 several places in the south and west of 

 England. The great secret of success with 

 any clianthus is to grow it quick ; if they 

 get starved, the red spider takes complete 

 possession ; hence it is best not to show 

 much favour to old plants 



Dillwynia juniperina. — So named on 

 account of irs fine leaves ; it is one of the 

 useful species of this genus, and produces 

 an abundance of its yellow papilionaceous 

 flowers, if well ripened the previous season. 

 It requires the same treatment as a Cape 

 heath, and will resent confinement and 

 damp. 



Dillwynia sericea. — A charming Faba- 

 ceous New Holland shrub, with showy 

 orange flowers ; worth a place anywhere, 

 and requiring the usual treatment of New 

 Holland plants. 



Dillwynia speciosa. — A very showy 

 species of one of the most manageable of 

 the tribe. Though interesting and useful, 

 it must be remembered that we have now 

 such an abundance of plants in flower that 

 Dillwyiiias are not to be considered pre- 

 cious. 



Diosma subulata.— -This forms a hand- 



some shrub, if grown in a tough, fibry 

 loam ; it is a common mistake to grow 

 Diosmas in peat, which starves them, and 

 makes the plants thin and sickly. With 

 plenty of drainage and an airy place, it 

 only needs to be well stopped to make a 

 bushy plant three feet high, now covered 

 with snow-white blossoms. Cuttings will 

 strike now in sand under a bell-glass, and 

 when rooted, should be potted into sandy 

 peat, and at the next shift have half peat 

 and half loam ; after that fibry loam only 

 in a lumpy state. D. succulenta has thick 

 leaves, and is less robust than the fore- 

 going. 



Diplacus ghdinosus. — This and punicea 

 are two capital mimulus-like plants for 

 turning out into warm borders during the 

 summer, where they make a gay show, and 

 grow freely. D. glutinosus produces orange 

 flowers, the other scarlet ; any ordinary 

 good soil suits them, with the same treat- 

 ment as mimulus. 



Euchilus obcordatus. — A useful green- 

 house evergreen shrub, producing yellow 

 papilionaceous blossoms, and requiring the 

 same treatment as Gastrolobium. Soil, 

 peat and loam. 



Eataxia pungens. — A pretty New Hol- 

 land shrub, of the leguminous order, which 

 makes a neat specimen when covered with 

 its orange flowers. It requires warmth all 

 winter, and otherwise must have the usual 

 treatment of a C 'pe heath. 



Gardoqida mul- (flora —This is entered 

 because it happened to be in bloom on the 

 22nd of May, as placed in the calendar ; 

 but G. Hookeri is a better species. The 

 present species produces purple labiate 

 flowers ; G. Hookeri is scarlet. Anybody 

 can grow them ; the only point of im- 

 portance is to give it a shady place out of 

 doors, or under glass during summer. 



Gastrolobium speciosum. — This is a 

 first-rate yellow-fliwered Fabaceous plant, 

 which requires and is worth go >cl culture. 

 The soil should be old fibry turf that has 

 been laying about some lime, with one- 

 half yellow loam, and a fourth part of 

 sand and charcoal, to be potted with an 

 extra layer of crocks. To be the least 

 water-logged is death to it. During win- 

 ter a warm house is the best place for it, 

 though, like the rest of the tribe, it is 

 nearly hardy. 



Gompholobium angust, 'folium. — A good 

 yellow-flowered papilionaceous New Hol- 

 land plant,requiring awarm house all winter 

 a very porous soil of peat, silver-sand, and 

 fibry loam in lumps, rilled in between with 

 potsherds broken almost to dust. If the 

 drainage is in any way imperfect, they are 

 sure to suffer. 



