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90 x THE” DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Ants—continued, Seer 2a -Aphelandra—continued. — 
Fly pans or saucers, nearly filled with thin honey or — 
sweet oil, attract Ants, and they are drowned in them. 
Ants are very hard to ¢lear effectually out of a place, 
and therefore it is very, desirable, in nibs attempts to be 
rid of them, to persist in the above remedies. When not, 
living close to the roots or stems of plants, the best and 
surest remedy of all is to flood them out or scald them 
in with boiling wa The specifics are endless, but the 
best are mentioned above. x ar * 
ANTWERP HOLLYHOCE. See Althea ficifolia. 
AOTUS (from a, without, and ous, an ear; in allusion to 
the absence of appendages in the calyx, which distinguishes, 
it from its allied genus, Pultenwa). ORD. Legiminosa. © 
Elegant little gr ouse evergreen shrubs, with, yellow 
flowers, and simple, linear-subulate leaves, revolute at the + 
margins, alternate or nearly opposite, or three in a whorl.. 
They should be grown in a compost of equal parts loam, 
sand, and peat, with a little charcoal, and the pots should 
be drained. Cuttings of half-ripened wood, made in 
April, root freely in sand, under a bell glass. 
A 
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gracillima (most slender).* fl. yellow and crimson, small, on 
long, dense, graceful pH which are often over a foot long; 
pedicels short. May. h. 3ft. New Holland, 1844. A very pretty 
slender growing shrub, 
A. villosa (soft-haired). pa 
along the branches; cal 
upper surface. h. lft. to 2ft. 
_APEIBA (the native name in Guiana.) ORD. 
Tiliacee. Very handsome stove evergreen trees or shrubs, 
clothed with starry down. Flowers large, golden yellow, 
pedunculate, bracteate. Capsule spherical, depressed, 
rough from rigid bristles. Leaves broad, alternate, entire 
or serrate. They thrive in a mixture of loam and peat. 
_ The best way to induce them to flower in this country is 
by cutting a ring round the bark of a large branch; by this 
means the growth is stopped. Well ripened cuttings should 
be planted in sand in heat, under a bell glass, which should 
be tilted occasionally, so as to give a little air to the cut- 
tings, otherwise they are apt to damp off. 
A. aspera (rough).* jl. golden yellow; peduncles opposite the 
axillary, disposed in racemose spikes 
silky. April. £ smoothish on the 
New Holland, 1790, 
leaves, branched, many flowered. May. ovate-oblo: some- 
what ‘cordate, quite entire, smooth. “4. 30ft. to a0ft. “Guiana, 
A. Petoumo (Petoumo ellow, similarly disposed to A. aspera. 
August. fr. densely clothed with bristles, l. ovate-oblong, some- 
o cordate at the base, entire, hoary beneath. A. 40ft. Guiana, 
A. Tibourbou (Tibourbou).* fl. dark yellow. August. fr. 
densely clothed with bristles. Z. cordate, ovate-oblong, serrated, 
meath. h. 10ft.. Guiana, 1756. 
APETALOUS. Without petals. 
simple, and aner, a 
ORD. Acanthacee. 
Flowers pro- 
preponderating 
orange or scarlet— 
large bl - 
rally during the autumn months, and if i ie 
removed to a warm dry atmosphere so soon as the flowers 
begin to open, they will continue much longer in perfection 
than if left in the moisture-laden atmosphere of vig stove. 
From the time the flower spikes are at first seen till they 
bloom, the plants will derive much benefit from frequent 
applications of clear manure water. When the plants have 
finished flowering, they should be allowed to rest, by re- 
ducing the supply of water, but never allow them to shrivel. 
During this time they may be kept in a house or pit, where 
the atmosphere is rather dry, with a night temperature of 
50deg. to 55deg. Here they may remain till March, when 
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>| ‘inlêngth, the plants should be turned out of the pots, remov- 
| they may. be transferred into larger-sized pots, in which 
they should be pruned. This operation is commenced by 
-thinning out the weakest shoots altogether, and cutting the 
others back to one or two of the strongest joints or buds 
above the old wood in order to keep the plants dwarf and 
| bushy. When pruned; the plants should be placed in the | 
stove, giving’moderate supplies of water at the roots, and 
occasionally sprinkling the stems overhead till growth com- 
mences. When the*young shoots have attained an inch or so — 
` ing the crocks and as much of the old soil as can be got away 
. easily, at the same time shortening-in any of the straggling 
roots. They should then be placed into smaller-sized pots, 
keeping them rather close, and watering them carefully for 
-æ time till growth has-commenced. When fairly started, 
«they, are to bloom. During the summer, these plants 
requiro a moist atmosphere, with a temperature of 65deg. 
by night, allowing it to rise 15deg. or 20deg. by day, and ~ 
whilst active growth is taking place they should be fress _ 
quently supplied with moisture at the roots, keeping them 
well exposed on all sides to the light. After growth has 
commenced, it is not advisable to stop the shoots, for 
- the stouter and stronger they grow up the finer will be 
the flower spikes when they appear. The compost should 
consist of equal parts fibry loam, leaf soil, and peat, with a 
good proportion of sand added. In preparing it, it should be 
rather lumpy, and, before using, should be warmed to about 
the temperature of the house in which the plants are 
grown. Clean pots and perfect drainage are most essen- 
tial. Cuttings are best prepared from half ripened wood, 
or taken off when young with a heel. The base of each 
cutting should invariably be cut clean across. These 
may be inserted an inch apart, in pots of sandy soil, and 
plunged in a brisk bottom heat. To obtain young shoots 
are 2in. long they 
requisite number of the 
the surplus pieces are remoyed with a slight heel of the 
older wood, they make good cuttings, and should be treated — 
the same as the others. These cuttings strike root quickest, — 
and when rooted, if potted into 5in. or 6in. pots, and allowed — 
to grow up without stopping or pinching out the tops, they — 
will bloom the first season. Although Aphelandras can be 
grown into large sized specimens, it will be found to be | 
more generally satisfactory to have specimens of neat and - 
moderate dimensions. The mealy bug and scale insects 
are very troublesome, and must be kept down, otherwise 
they will prove most prejudicial to the plants. Í 
acute-leaved). jl. large, deep vermilion red; the 
ae fort patina Ss ea paler forward, the lower 
one consists of three oblong-obtuse as lobes. 
l. broad, oblong-ovate,; acuminate. Columbia, 1868. 
.A. aurantiaca (orange-coloured).* jl. deep orange searlet ; upper 
- lip of corolla erect, bidentate, concave; lower one pe r 
horizontally, three lobed. December. l. broad, ovate, oppoas 
dark green, somewhat wavy at the edge. A ait 
from the type in the curiously 
, shaded with a silvery ue 
hter scarlet of the forthe 
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1844. 
A.a. Roezlii (Roezl’s).* Ditfers chiefly 
twisted leaves, which are dark 
between nage eg veins ; in the bri 
and a few other, but purely technical, points. It is one 
xico, 1867. . A, Roezlii. 
pulcherrima. 
fascinator (fascinating).* fl. bright vermilion, in very : 
ag aee _l. ovate acuminate, olive green, pontifully 
banded with silvery white, whilst the under side is of a uniform 
purplish violet. h. 1}ft. New Gremada, 1874, á 
Leopold’s).* 7. citron-yellow. Z. opposite, ova ; 
oblong, pinata ground colour in the upper surface dark 
green, the midrib and l | pure w ; under 
uniformly pale green. 1854. : : he. 
As aoe ere een wan yee central brand. Brazil, 
1871. SYN. Graptoph urat = e 
