ANTHURIUM. 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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two months of the year and two first of the 
ensuing one 60° at night will be sufficient, 
allowing 6° or 8° more by day. When 
possessed of a fair amount of stock, instead 
of cutting the plants up into pieces, as has 
just been recommended, be content with 
severing a joint or two from the base in the 
spring just before growth commences, at 
the same time removing the plants into 
fresh material if the old seems getting too 
much decomposed. In this way large pots 
of handsome full-sized crowns can always 
be had, and the stock increased as well. 
Whenever they show signs of flower- 
ing, cut the bloom-spikes out as soon as 
they can be got at, as removing them 
strengthens the plants. 
The following are some of the most 
handsome and distinct kinds :— 
A. argenteus. Very distinct from the 
golden-nerved kinds. It has pale green 
leaves, netted with silver veins, glistening 
like frozen dew. Brazil. 
A. argenteus pictus. Like A. argenteus, 
with the addition of a pale silvery band 
down the middle of the leaves. Brazil. 
A. Dawsonianus. A strong, erect-grow- 
ing plant, with very dark leaves. Distinct 
in habit. Malacca. 
A. imperialis (syn. : A. petola). A very 
fine kind, the leaves of which are pale 
olive-green, with light-coloured veins. 
Java. 
A. intermedius. A strong-growing kind 
with handsomely marked foliage, not quite 
so bright in the veins as A. setaceus. Java. 
A. Lobb. A scarce sort, that forms 
large leaves of a deep ground colour, 
charmingly relieved with light veins. Java. 
A. Loww. <A _ large-growing distinct 
species, and very handsome. It forms very 
large, broad, velvety leaves of almost a 
black-green colour, beautifully relieved by 
light-green veins. A slow grower. Borneo. 
A. Lowi virescens. A distinct form, with 
paler coloured leaves. Very beautiful. 
Borneo. 
A, setaceus. A free-growing species, 
with dark reddish-brown velvety leaves 
covered with a network of transparent 
golden veins. Ceylon. 
A, setaceus cordatus. A form of the 
above with deeper coloured veins. Java. 
A. xanthophyllus. A very distinct and 
handsome sort, which, in addition to the 
veining, has a broad band of lighter colour 
running down the middle of the leaves. 
Ceylon. 
Insects.—Greenfly sometimes affect 
Ancectochilus, getting on the under sides 
of the leaves. . lmmediately their presence 
is detected fumigate with tobacco, repeat- 
ing the application until all are destroyed. 
ANOPTERUS GLANDULOSUS. 
A large-growing evergreen shrub, with 
handsome leaves, suitable for a roomy house, 
for which alone it is adapted. 
It can be increased and grown in the 
way advised for Clethras, which see. There 
is only this species in cultivation ; it bears 
white flowers, which appear in winter, or 
early spring. A native of Van Dieman’s 
Land. 
ANTHURIUM. 
(Flowering. ) 
Of these there are several that will bear 
a favourable comparison in their flowers 
with the best plants brought into the 
country in either recent or bygone times. 
There are some that especially deserve a 
place in even the most select collection of 
blooming stove plants ; but as they require 
somewhat different usage as to soil, it will 
be necessary to treat of them separately. 
Amongst the more recent introductions 
of Anthurium, is the white-spathed A. 
candidum, from the United States of 
Colombia, a plant of somewhat slender 
habit, with rather small, erect, ovate, 
lanceolate leaves, on proportionate foot 
stalks ; the spathes are about 33 inches in 
length. It associates well with A. flori- 
bundum, a new Grenada species, which 
has much broader, slightly lanceolate 
leaves, dark-green, and of compact habit ; 
the spathes of this plant are also white, 
and it lasts long in flower. Both may be 
increased by division of the crowns taken 
off in the spring, when they have made a 
few roots from the base. That these exist 
before the crowns are separated from the 
parent plant is essential, as, if taken off 
before they have formed roots independent 
of the plant that has produced them, they 
will be long in growing away freely. When 
taken off, place them in pots just large 
enough to permit of the roots being in- 
serted without injury. They are surface 
rooters, requiring an abundance of water, 
consequently they do not need a great 
depth of soil, but must have plenty of 
drainage material. Half fill the pots with 
crocks ; the soil should consist of fibrous 
peat three parts, to one of flaky rotten 
dung that has been well dried. Such as 
has lain exposed on the surface for mulch- 
ing a Vine border or an Asparagus bed is 
in the best possible condition for the roots 
of these Anthuriums ; add to these a fifth 
part of leaf-mould, a good sprinkling of 
crocks broken the size of horse beans, and 
a fair quantity of silver sand, mixing the 
whole well together. Do not, even whils 
