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Six months old plants grown in pots 

 yield a large quantity of flowers, but as 

 the plant is of a most rapid growth, it 

 must be kept well supplied with food, and 

 will give more or less flowers from April 

 until autumn. But its great beauty is 

 revealed when given an open border under 

 glass. Then its great masses of pleasing 

 rosy crimson flowers make a floral sheet 

 that is dazzling, and is not one of a day, 

 but lasts from early spring until mid- 

 winter. 



We know of no plant of late introduc- 

 tion that has given so much satisfaction. 

 It has come to stay. Astheindividual flow- 

 ers last for many days they are valuable 

 for floral decorations both for their color, 

 profusion, and duration. It should be 

 treated as a conservatory plant and 

 given a period of rest from January until 

 March. P. J. Berckmans. 



Augusta, Ga. 



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BOUGAINVTLLEA GLABRA SANDERIANA. 



November, when its foliage begins to fall. 

 Plants in the open ground bloom very 

 profusely from June until the growth is 

 checked by frost. 



Being deciduous, it must have a rest 

 during winter, and is readily propagated 

 when dormant. As this plant is a native 

 of the temperate sections of Costa Rica, 

 it can be treated in the extreme south as 

 half hardy, but in colder sections requires 

 the same winter protection as is given to 

 the orange. P. J. Berckmans. 



Augusta, Ga. 



HEATING A ROOM FOR PLANTS. 



I am building a room 16x16 with a 

 great deal of light, suitable for flowers. 

 Steam and hot water heating not being 

 convenient, what kind of stove would 

 you recommend to keep the air as moist 

 as possible? F. E. B. 



N. Y. 



I would advise the use of a moderate 

 sized stove with plenty of pipe distributed 

 through the room rather than a larger 

 stove in one corner with very little pipe, 

 because in the former the heat would be 

 better distributed. A stove of ample size 

 would after first cost be much the cheap- 

 est because you would at all times save 

 fuel and never have occasion to make the 

 stove red hot to produce the required 



heat. The many different designs of 

 heating stoves are legion, but one on 

 which you could keep a pan of water is 

 to be preferred. A pan of water continu- 

 ally evaporating must produce some hu- 

 midity, and remember the broader the 

 pan the better. I would say somewhere 

 about fifteen inches wide and three inches 

 deep would be best. 



F. E. B. need not think that flowers 

 cannot be kept well in a room heated 

 with a stove for we continually see plants 

 thriving and cut flowers looking bright 

 in rooms heated by a stove. Some of the 

 finest grapes ever grown under glass and 

 some oi the finest flowers and choicest 

 plants ever produced have grown in 

 greenhouses heated with flues, which are 

 nothing but hot bricks. Can the heat 

 radiated from hot iron be any more 

 harmful than that from hot flues? I 

 think not. For lighting your room use 

 electricity or oil lamps. Illuminatinggas 

 is without doubt very deleterious to all 

 plant life. Wm. Scott. 



BOU0A1NVILLEA GLABRA SANDBRIANA. 



When this new bougainvillea was first 

 introduced it was predicted that it would 

 soon become very popular as a pot plant 

 because of its profusion of blooms and 

 long period ot blooming. In this there 

 has been no disappointment. 



HEATING A SMALL GREENHOUSE. 



I am making flans for a small lean-to 

 greenhouse that will be used for chrysan- 

 themums up to December 1, closed in win- 

 ter, and started in the last week of March 

 in the place ot a hotbed. It is to be 9x17 

 and run north and south. Can the chim- 

 ney be placed in the north end? I design 

 to heat with a small stove, running the 

 pipe under the bench. Will it draw with 

 the chimney in the north end? It seems 

 to me the most of our spring winds come 

 from the north. Could you suggest a 

 stove? Don't want a flue. An oil stove 

 has been mentioned, but the wicks are a 

 care and uncertain in action. I know 

 that greenhouses should not run north 

 and south, but we have no other olace 

 for it. F. N.'B. 



I see no reason why thechimney should 

 not be placed at the north end of the 

 house; it is the proper place for it. In 

 this case the pipe from stove is to be used 

 for heating so to have thechimney on the 

 north end the pipe would have to run 

 under the bench on one side, cross over at 

 the south end and return under the other 

 bench to the chimney. Don't let your 

 stove be inside the house oryciwillbe 

 bothered with dust, and what is worse, 

 gas. Have a small shed for the stove at 

 the north end and let the top of chimney 

 be at least two feet above highest part of 

 greenhouse. 



Oil stoves are very unreliable and could 

 not with any safety be left for six or seven 

 hours during the night. As subscriber 

 does not want to use a flue and does not 

 mention what is best of all in every 

 respect, hot water, it seems he thinks of 

 running the ordinary stove pipe under 

 his benches. That would be highly dan- 

 gerous, and liable to great variations of 

 temperature. Use in place of stove pipe a 

 5 or 6-inch vitrified sewer pipe; it will 

 last for many years. They come in two 

 feet lengths and can rest on a brick edge 

 ways to keep clear of the ground. The 

 best stove would be that of the simplest 

 construction and most direct draught as 

 you do not want to keep the heat in the 

 stove, as you do in a dwelling room, but 

 you want it to pass off into the pipes. 

 Wm. Scott. 



We have received a prospectus of an 

 elaborate work entitled "Favorite flow- 

 ers of garden and greenhouse" to be 

 issued by Frederick Warne & Co., of New 

 York. It is to be published in four vol- 

 umes, containing 316 colored plates, price 

 in cloth $30, and in half morocco $36 per 

 set. A specimen plate, sent with the 

 prospectus, is very well executed. 



