t- a. 
AN ENCYCLOPZADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 
Ardisia—continued. 
When the plants begin to grow again, they should be 
removed to a light situation in the house; and when the 
pots are well filled with roots, a shift into 6in. pots may 
be effected, water being given judiciously until well esta- 
_blished, and here they may remain to fruit. Until the 
berries are coloured, clear manure water, given once or 
twice a week, will be found beneficial. The plants arrive 
at their best when about 1 or 2ft. high; after that, 
they begin to get naked at ie bottom. It will then be 
wise to cut the worst plants down to within 2in. of the 
pots, in early spring, allowing them to become dry at 
the roots before this operation is performed. By giving 
moisture to the roots when the cut has become dry, the 
plants will soon break into growth again, when some of 
the worst placed shoots should be rubbed off, leaving only 
one or two of the strongest and best placed, calculated to 
develop into a well formed plant. When the shoots have 
grown 2in. or 3in., the plants should be turned out of their 
pots, the soil shaken out from the roots, and the long 
ends of the roots trimmed in a little with a knife; they 
“must then be placed in a pot sufficiently large to hold the 
roots without squeezing. The plants should now occupy 
the warmest end of the house in which they are grown, care 
being taken in watering until new roots are formed, when 
they may have more air ana somewhat liberal supplies 
of water. As soon as they are sufficiently advanced in 
growth, they should be transferred to a larger-sized pot. 
With proper treatment, they will flower and fruit the same 
season as they are cut down, and form handsome plants. 
Although most species of this genus are classed as stove 
plants, they will succeed very well in a temperature that does 
not fall below 45deg. in winter; and, when so grown, 
they are not so liable to become infested with large brown 
scale and other insect pests. This is particularly the case 
with A. crenulata, and cool treatment is also favourable to 
the ripe berries hanging on the plants for a much longer 
time than when grown in a stove. Moreover, they do not 
sufier so much when removed for decorative purposes. 
(taper-pointed). fl. nearly white ; petals small, 
es termi and axillary, many-flowered. 
labrous, oblong, acuminated, attenuated at the 
t. Guiana, 1803. 
A. acuminata 
acute, dotted ; 
~ July. 2. entire, 
base. h. 6ft. to 
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Fic. 146. FLOWERING BRANCH OF ARDISIA CRENULATA. 
Ardisia—continued. 
A sate feet, coal, tm, ls oe tr 
um! te, ing. July. Berries Soragna 
oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at both ends, with k repandl — - 
oblong ianeociato; att glabrous. ~ scared sv T w 
A. munis humble). j. rose-coloured uncles solitary drooping 
ing each a racemose nary of of many gots fe 
flowers; pe volute 
June. | Berries size parpat peas, ning blac, — A 
late, acuminated 
India 1800. rous, juicy. eee ft. 
get er e (Japanese).* jt. white ; pedicels on ig | sub-umbellate, 
; racemes une. J. nearly 
to five in a w son short petioles, cuneate - 
oh n fe 4in. long. A, lf apan. 
oblong, acu t J 
Perhaps the hardiest of alt the po an 
-fruited).* fl. flesh ; petals 
ovate, obtuse; racemes ponte, 5 ser ay almost se le, 
may hairy. Berries vermilion coloured, as large as goose- 
berries. J. oblong, acute, tapering downward landularly 
crenated, dotted, close together, leathery, 6in. to ong, paler 
beneath, veinless. Ah. Sf to 6ft. Nepaul, 1824 mk beautiful 
A. Oliveri ee Fees rose pink, white eye ; corolla rotate, Jin. 
across ; lobes obtuse ; heads terminal, consisting of a number of 
stalked, man many fowored corymbs ; icels about twice as long as 
the flower, L nearly sessile, entire, glabrous, 6in. to 8in. 
long, by 2in. in a broadest portion ; oblanceolate, acuminate, 
tapering towards the base. Costa Rica, ma 
A. paniculata (panicled).* 
A. punctata (dotted). fl. greyish white, rpa secund, 
beset with dark dots, and the pedicels with dark lines ; peduncles 
umbellate, terminal, and axillary; umbels involucrated by 
deciduous bracts. June. l. glabrous, lanceolate, leathery, re 
paniy crenated, tapering to the base. A. 6ft. to 10ft. China, 
A. serrulata (finely serrated).* f. deep at Petals ciliated ; 
calyces and ponhs coloured ; panicles ret ; pedicels umbel- 
late. July. glabrous, lanceolate, poco mae f wrinkled, ser- 
rulated, as with rusty dots beneath - - branches. downy. h. 2ft. 
to 3ft. China, 1820. 
A. villosa (hairy). jl. whitish; umbels axillary and terminal, v 
villous. October. Berries villous. l lanceolate, r 
villous beneath, crenulated, 5in. to 7in. long, tapering to 
base, copiously dotted. China. All the upper parts of ne pla 
are densely beset with hairs, 
A. v. mollis (soft).* This variety has very fine red berries, and is . 
superior to the type. è 
A. OI abeyance E, ikem cor Pek in loose E 
peduncles a , one-half pedicels, pi pilose eaves and 
are, as well as dalys d 
te, bi 
repanilly ore cremated, tn. to to fo the long, ete pel 
ARDOINA. (in ea of P. Arduini, curator 
of the Economical Garden of Padua, in the time 
of Linneus). ORD. Apocynacee. A singular and 
pretty greenhouse evergreen shrub, of easy culture 
in por ogee eon pots of peat and loam, mixed 
in proportions. Propagated by cuttings 
in under a glass. The winter temperature 
should not be a ed to fall below 40deg. 
bispinosa (two-spined). fl. small, white, sweet- 
scented, terminal, corymbose. ~ March to August. Berry 
red. 1. cordate- cae mucronate, nearly sessile, dark 
green, larger tha those of Box. Spines twin, simple, 
but usually bifid; in this last case, one of the clefts 
ge downwards, and the other upwards. A. 3ft. to 
ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1760. SYN. Carissa Arduina. 
ARECA (Areec is its name in Malabar, when an 
old tree). The Cabbage Palm. ORD. Palmaceæ. 
This genus is now broken up into several, and 
many species formerly here arranged are 1 
under Acanthopheniz, Euterpe, Hyophorbe, Kentia, 
Oncosperma, Phenicophorum, Very 
and graceful stove palms, with a branching spadix, and 
double spathe, which incloses the flowers. Flowers 
unisexual, borne upon the same spike; female flowers 
having six rudimentary stamens, and male flowers a six- 
cleft perianth. Fruit one-seeded. They thrive in a com- 
post of loam, peat, and leaf soil, in equal parts, with a 
liberal addition of sand; et ee grown, 
