94 Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
CASSIA CORYMBOSA, 
as to prepare them for planting out in the 
open ground towards the end of 
Choose an open place where the soil is of 
a good description, and dig in some rotten 
manure and leaf-mould. Put the plants 
a foot apart, with a little more room 
between the rows; yu points, 
otherwise they will not be furnished with 
sufficient shoots, and give water in dry 
weather. “oe them and put 
in 6 or 7 inch pots m good rich loam, 
to which add a little leaf-mould, rotten 
manure, and sand ; water moderately, and 
stand in a light house or pit near the glass. 
The plants should now be furnished with 
from four to half-a-dozen shoots each ; 
these will push up flower-stems through the 
autumn, and come into bloom sooner or 
later according to the warmth they are 
subjected to. When the flower-buds are 
prominent a temperature of 50° in the 
night will accelerate their opening ; such 
as are required for later flowering must be 
kept cooler. After blooming the plants 
ought to be again turned out in May, or 
later in the case of those that have béen 
kept back for late spring flowering. In 
all cases cut out the_old_bloom stems at 
the bottom as soon as the last flowers are 
over ; if this is not well attended to with 
the young plants, as well as with the old 
and large, they get into a tall unsightly 
state, and are much less manageable. 
When out in the open ground they must 
not want for water, or be allowed to suffer 
through the ravages of aphides. Again, 
in September take up and put them in 
pots 7 or 8 inches in diameter, and treat 
as in the preceding season. <A portion of 
the plants this second season should not 
have their shoots stopped; these will 
come into bloom early in the autumn, and 
be succeeded by the remainder that have 
had their shoots pinched back about July. 
Cuttings should be struck in autumn, 
several together in 5 or 6 inch pots filled 
with a mixture of sand and loam. Stand 
them on a slight hot-bed, and if kept 
shaded and moist they will soon root. 
Then they must gradually be subjected to 
more air and a lower temperature, after 
which, put singly in small pots, and keep 
them through the rest of the season in a 
frame or pit. Winter out of the reach of 
frost ; stop the shoots, and turn them out 
in a bed in May, and treat subsequently 
as recommended for the plants raised from 
seed. Layering should be carried out in 
the summer, about the same time as in 
the case of the exhibition varieties of 
Carnation. 
The following are all good kinds :-- 
C. Alegatiere. Red. 
C. Andalusia. Primrose yellow. 
C. Cassandra. Buff ground colour, edged 
with scarlet. 
C. Fire-Fly. Scarlet. 
C. Gloire de Nancy. Pure white. 
C. La Belle. White. 
C. L’Hermine. White. 
C. Lucifer. Intense bright scarlet. 
C. Mary Morris. Rose colour. 
C. Miss Jolliffe. Pale pink. 
C. Mont Blanc. Pure white. 
C. Mrs. George Hawtrey. Yellow. 
C. Mrs. Maclaren. Crimson bizarre. 
C. Osman Pacha. Bright scarlet. 
C. Reverse. Scarlet, at times striped. 
C. Souvenir de la Malmaison. Blush 
white. 
C. Souvenir de la Malmaison. 
variety. 
C. The Queen. Pure white. 
C. Vestal. White. 
C. Warrior. Deep scarlet. 
Insects.—Aphides are often trouble- 
some, but can be got rid of by fumigating 
with tobacco or dipping in tobacco-water. 
Mildew sometimes affects them, for this 
dust with flowers of sulphur. 
Pink 
CARYOTA. 
A tall-growing genus of Stove Palms, in- 
digenous to widely different parts of the 
world, being found in America, China, and 
India. For propagation and cultivation, 
see Palms, general details of culture. 
C. urens (syn.: CO. sobolifera). A stately 
tall-growing species, extremely useful in 
the country where it grows; 1t yields in 
quantity a saccharine juice, which is made 
into Palm wine, and also sugar. This 
Palm attains a large size before it begins 
to flower ; afterwards the blooming process 
is continued until the plant dies, evidently 
from the exhaustion thus caused. It is 
indigenous to Ceylon, Malabar, Bengal, 
and other parts of India. 
CASSIA CORYMBOSA. 
This handsome bright yellow-flowered 
greenhouse plant is from Buenos Ayres. 
It belongs to a very numerous family in- 
digenous to a wide extent of country, over 
both the eastern and western hemispheres, 
but few of them are of much account for 
cultivation in greenhouses. It is of com- 
paratively easy growth and a very suitable 
subject for beginners in plant-growing to 
try their hands at, as it is not very im- 
patient in respect to water. It is more 
deserving of cultivation on account of its 
colour, yellow not being common among 
plants adapted for pot-culture in houses 
