Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
AGALMYLA. 
and syringing overhead when the house is 
closed. 
By midsummer again pinch out the 
points of the shoots, which will now begin 
to assume their natural drooping habit, to 
admit of which the plants may be stood 
upon inverted pots. Continue to supply 
them with moisture, heat, and shade 
through the summer months, again pinch- 
ing out the points of the shoots about the 
middle of August. Dispense with shading 
as the sun declines in power, and cease 
syringing, giving more air and less atmos- 
pheric moisture. Keep them through the 
winter in a temperature of 60° in the 
night, and a little higher in the day time, 
and give as much water to the soil as will 
keep the roots a little moist ; at the end of 
March move into pots two sizes larger, using 
the soil in a little rougher state, adding 
crocks and sand as before, and draining 
the pots similarly. The shoots must not 
be stopped now, or the time of flowering 
will be delayed ; treat as advised in the 
preceding summer as to heat, shade, and 
moisture. By midsummer the early 
blooming sorts will show flower ; the later 
kinds, such as A. splendens, further on. 
When the blooms open the plants may be 
kept in the stove, or removed, as already 
stated, to a somewhat cooler house for a 
few weeks, but they must never be sub- 
mitted to a cold dry atmosphere. When 
done flowering replace in the stove, and at 
once cut back the whole of the growths to 
within 8 or 10 inches of the base. If this 
is not done, they will get into a straggling 
condition, with their flowering shoots 
irregularly placed, and will be destitute of 
healthy young leaves near the base, so 
essential to their fresh pleasing appearance ; 
and if the shortening is deferred until 
spring, considerable time will be lost, and 
so many blooming shoots will not be 
formed. The cut-back shoots will break 
and make some growth before the end of 
the season, and if in good healthy condition 
at the roots, a number of young growths 
will push up from the base. 
Keep through the winter as in the season 
before, and again repot in the spring, giving 
a 2-inch shift. They may be hung up by 
wires fastened round the pots below the 
rim and joined above the top of the plants, 
or the pots may be plunged in wire baskets, 
and the space betwixt the pots and the sides 
of the baskets filled up with moss ; in this 
way they look much the best, and broad 
shallow pots should be used. After potting, 
treat generally as in the preceding summer. 
This season, if all goes well, they will make 
many more shoots, with a proportionate 
increase of flowers. They will be bene- 
fited by manure-water once or twice a 
week. After they have bloomed cut them 
well in as before ; in the spring they may 
have a portion of the old soil removed, but 
the roots should not be disturbed too much. 
Replace with new, and return them to the 
same pots, if these are deemed large enough ; 
if not, they may be put in others an inch 
or two larger. In this way they will last 
for years. 
The following are sufficiently distinct to 
merit a place wherever plants in hanging 
baskets are held in estimation :— 
44. Boschianus. A distinct and pretty 
species from Java ; the flowers are brilliant 
scarlet and yellow. It keeps on blooming 
for a considerable portion of the summer. 
4H. fulgens. A handsome species, with 
bright scarlet flowers, produced freely. 
From Moulmein. 
4G. grandiflorus. This species comes 
from Khoseea, and will bear a con- 
siderably lower temperature when at rest 
than the other kinds that have been intro- 
duced from Java; its tube-shaped flowers 
are produced in bunches, and are of a 
bright scarlet colour suffused with yellow. 
It blooms in August and September. 
AG. Lobbianus. A handsome sort, with 
scarlet flowers, produced in summer and 
autumn. It is a native of Java. 
AY. splendidus. Thisis a garden hybrid, 
produced between AL. grandiflorus and A. 
speciosus, and is the finest of the strong- 
growing kinds. The flowers are produced 
in bunches of ten or a dozen, and are of 
the most intense scarlet, the segments 
marked with blackish brown. It flowers 
in the summer. 
Zé. tricolor. This is a distinct and 
pretty species, that bears yellow and scar- 
let flowers. It comes from Borneo. 
Ai. xzebrinus. A handsome _ scarlet 
flowered kind, from Java. 
Insects. — Aschynanthus are little 
troubled with the smaller plant pests, 
such as thrips and red spider, as these can 
be easily kept down by the use of the 
syringe, their thick leathery leaves being 
easily cleansed by this means. Mealy bug 
and scale will sometimes affect them ; these 
may be kept under by sponging and a free 
use of the syringe. 
AGALMYLA LONGISTYLA. 
This miniature creeping Stove Gesnerad 
isanative of Java, and from its peculiar 
habit it is well adapted for particular posi- 
tions. When suspended from the roof of 
a warm house, where plants of small growth 
can with advantage be used, it gives the 
structure a more furnished appearance, and 
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