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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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wards through the season as previously. 
By the spring following the plants should 
be large enough to plant out. A good bed 
ought to be prepared by putting the neces- 
sary drainage in the bottom, and filling in 
with good loam, to which add some sand 
and a moderate sprinkling of broken crocks, 
or other material of a like nature, as the 
soil in all cases such as this, where con- 
fined under glass in a close atmosphere 
and subjected to continual watering by the 
use of the syringe, is liable to get sour and 
adhesive. If the plant is well managed, 
and has room enough given it, it will live 
for many years, producing annually its 
long racemes of bright red, yellow spotted 
flowers. 
Insects. — The constant use of the 
syringe, already advised, through the 
growing season will keep down the less 
objectionable insects, but scale and mealy 
bug can only be destroyed by repeated 
sponging, which must be done as often as 
found necessary. 
AMORPHOPHALLUS. 
These are singular stove Aroids, with 
ample handsome foliage. The flowers are 
more curious than beautiful. They re- 
quire similar treatment to Caladiums, 
which see. 
The following are distinct kinds :— 
A. bulbiferus. Flowers red, produced 
in spring. A native of East India. 
A. campanulatus. Has purple flowers, 
and is a spring bloomer. From Ceylon. 
B. cupreus. A distinct-looking species, 
with attractive flowers. 
A. giganteus. A strong grower, with 
purple flowers. A native of India. 
ANANASSA SATIVA VARIEGATA. 
(The variegated Pine Apple.) 
This handsome stove plant is a favourite 
with cultivators. It differs in no way in 
appearance from the ordinary forms of the 
fruit-bearing Pines, except that the leaves 
are handsomely variegated. 
It is increased by suckers in the same 
way as others of the genus. After re- 
moval from the parent plant, they should 
be laid for a couple of days or so in the 
stove, so as to allow the base to dry up a 
little ; then strip off a few of the lower 
leaves. They may then either be inserted 
in a bed in the stove (if such exists) until 
rooted, and afterwards put in pots pro- 
portionate in size to that of the now rooted 
suckers, or they may be put singly in pots, 
filled with good turfy loam, to which has 
been added a little sand, the soil being 
kept drier than requisite for most plants. 
If they can be accommodated with a brisk 
bottom heat they will root more quickly, 
although this is not indispensable. After 
they are well-rooted, the plants should be 
elevated near the glass, and given air daily 
in the growing season, with a slight dash 
of the syringe in the afternoons. No more 
shade should be used than the construction 
of the house and its position necessitates, 
as the more light the plants receive the 
stouter and more beautifully arched in 
form the leaves will get. The suckers 
may be taken off and struck any time in 
the spring or summer, when large enough, 
but it is well not to separate them from the 
plants that produce them until they have 
attained considerable strength, otherwise 
they take longer to grow up to a handsome 
size. Ordinary warm stove treatment 
summer and winter answers for them. All 
that is further required is to give more pot 
room as it is wanted : a 12-inch pot is big 
enough to grow a large example in. It is 
a plant that at all times requires careful 
watering, but water should not be applied 
until the soil is drier than most things 
require it to be. 
There is another variety, A. Porteana, 
somewhat different from the preceding in 
its variegation ; it will succeed with like 
treatment to A. sativa variegata. 
Insects.—Like other kinds of Pine 
Apple, the variegated varieties are not 
much subject to the attacks of insects, but 
mealy bug and white scale will live on 
them. Care should be taken never to 
begin with plants affected with the latter 
insect, Which is difficult to get rid of, 
getting, as it does, down to the base of the 
leaves; if mealy bug attack the plants, 
sponging will be the safest remedy. 
ANCYLOGYNE LONGIFLORA. 
An evergreen stove plant of shrubby 
habit, with large leaves, and tubular purple 
flowers, produced in drooping panicles. It 
is an effective plant, and can, by liberal 
treatment, be grown to a large size, like 
many other quick-growing Acanthads, in 
little time, or it may be flowered ina small 
state. 
The treatment it requires is such as ad- 
vised for Justicias, which see. It comes 
from Guayaquil. 
ANEMIA. 
A genus of stove Ferns, with a decidedly 
distinct habit. The fructification is pro- 
duced in the form of a panicle, similar to 
