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TJie IlorticuUuiisi and Joimial 



Greenhouse for July. 



Wateriuf/ — The weather at this season is 

 usually too hot for enjoyment under a glass 

 roof, and most of the plants being outside, 

 there is little to be done in this department 

 excepting watering temporary occupants ; such 

 plants as Coleus and Caladiums requiring a 

 very liberal supply with an occasional water- 

 ing with liquid manure when the pots are filled 

 with roots, and a liberal application of the 

 hose or syringe to every part morning and 

 evening of bright days. If this is neglected, 

 such plants as climbers on roofs will get 

 smothered with insects and dust. 



Jjute Camellias will be now best out-of- 

 doors in a shady place. These plants, with 

 others, removed out earlier in the season, will 

 requu'e strict attention to watering, a good 

 application of the hose over the foliage at 

 frequent intervals being of great service in 

 keeping plants clean and free from dust, but 

 we do not recommend an indiscriminate water- 

 ing to the soil of large plants with the hose. 

 In this case some get more than required and 

 many do not get enough, the surface only 

 being moistened while the ball of roots is 

 often dust dry, which often is the cause of 

 sudden death in such plants as Heaths and 

 Azaleas, and dropping of the buds of Camellias. 



Climbers on roof should now be in full 

 beauty. No warm greenhouse should be with- 

 out a good plant of Stephanotis jiorihunda. 

 This plant is in full beauty during June and 

 July. We have a plant which is planted in 

 a small bed and trained to wires near the 

 glass roof of a warm house ; it has hundreds 

 of bunches of its beautiful white, sweet- 

 scented flowers, than which nothing is more 

 lovely either for wedding bouquets or funeral 

 wreaths. We feel much surprised to see 

 this beautiful plant is not more cultivated in 

 this country. All our lady visitors are 

 charmed with it when in full flower, and it 

 is very easily grown, requiring abundance of 

 water when growing, and very little during 



the winter. The flower being produced on the 

 young wood it requires liberal pruning during 

 the winter, and a bunch of flowers will show 

 with each pair of leaves. 



I'assiflora priueesse is a capital com- 

 panion to the Stephanotis, and it has the 

 additional charm of flowering all the year 

 round. Its beautiful racemes of scarlet flowers 

 are very useful to cut for hanging around tall 

 vases of cut flowers for rooms and churches ; 

 we use them during the winter for Plymouth 

 Church. 



Tacsoiiia Bueliananl is another fine 

 climber, but it reijuires a large house ; it be- 

 ing a very rampant grower would soon over- 

 grow everything else in a small house, but the 

 flowers are of the most magnificent scarlet, 

 more of the color of Poiusettia bracts than any 

 flower I have ever seen. This plant sends 

 out a single flower from the bare of each leaf, 

 so that it is continually in flower. 



Thuubergia Harrisii should be pruned 

 in and thoroughly cleaned to induce a free 

 growth for flowering next winter. 



Doable White Primula if not planted 

 out of pots in a frame, will require shaking 

 out from old soil and repotting into smaller 

 pots in good, free, sweet soil, and be placed 

 in a shady frame to be kept rather close in 

 the day, but with plenty of air during the 

 night. These plants do not like free water- 

 ing over the foliage ; the leaves, and often the 

 heart of the plant will rot off during our hot 

 summer. The plants make but little progress, 

 but as the nights become longer and cooler, 

 they make rapid growth. 



Poiusettias will require potting into the 

 pots they are intended to flower in. Tops of 

 young shoots put into small pots and rooted 

 in a close frame, will make nice little plants 

 for decoration of rooms or for front row in 

 greenhouse. If these plants are not placed 

 out-of-doors, give them a good, light position 

 with plenty of ventilation, but we prefer these 

 plants outside during the hot months, if con- 

 venient. 



Aucabas — Most of our readers are ac- 

 quainted with the spotted-leaved variety 

 which is frequently seen as a decorative jjlant 



