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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
CLEMATIS INDIVISA. 
new, as any attempt at shaking out the 
roots would end in disaster. Give ordi- 
nary stove treatment through the summer 
in respect to heat, moisture, and shade, 
which latter should not be used further 
than to keep the leaves from scorching. 
Syringe the plants freely daily until 
autumn, when admit more air to solidify 
the growth. Winter at 60° in the 
night, with 5° more by day; give 
larger pots in spring, and treat through 
the summer as advised for the preceding 
year. All subsequently required is to 
continue the course so far indicated, giving 
more root-room until the plants are large 
enough to turn out in a bed of well pre- 
pared soil, or move into large tubs that 
will hold sufficient material to support 
them for some time, to assist which give 
manure-water once a week through the 
growing season. 
The following two species are both hand- 
some :— 
C. macrocarpa (syn.: C. macrophylla). 
Has white flowers ; it blooms in autumn. 
A native of Peru. 
C. ornata. A yellow-flowered species 
that blooms in autumn. From the 
Caraccas. 
Insects.—Scale and mealy bug_ will 
thrive apace on these plants ; if the latter 
is troublesome, syringe freely with in- 
secticide. To remove scale, a hard brush 
should be used to the old wood, sponging 
the young growth and leaves. 
CLEMATIS INDIVISA. 
This is a strong-growing, very handsome 
evergreen greenhouse climber, bearing 
white flowers in great profusion during 
the spring months. It is from New Zea- 
land, and is a very suitable plant for a 
large house, where a considerable space has 
to be covered, and where it has room to 
develop itself sufficiently to exhibit its 
natural character. It is a free-rooting 
subject, and requires to be planted out, as 
no ordinary sized pot could contain enough 
soil to support the growth which it makes ; 
but in commencing with young plants it 
is better to grow them on for a time in 
pots, so as to get them well furnished with 
roots before turning out into a prepared 
border. 
This Clematis will strike from cuttings, 
but much the best method of propagation 
is grafting small bits of the shoots on 
pieces of root of any strong-growing kind ; 
this should be carried out early in the 
spring, keeping the grafted plants in a 
warm, confined atmosphere until a union 
is effected, and they have begun to make 
growth, after which they must be gradually 
inured to more light and air, and kept on 
in a growing temperature until there is 
enough solar heat to keep them growing 
freely through the summer; move them 
into larger pots as these are required, 
training the single shoot which each young 
plant should have to astick. Keep through 
the autumn and winter in an ordinary 
greenhouse ; in April move into pots 3 or 
4 inches larger, stopping the points of the 
shoots. The plant grows well in a mixture 
of half peat and loam, with a moderate 
quantity of sand added to it. For this, as 
for other free-rooting things, it is well not 
to make the soil too fine ; break the turfy 
pieces into bits the size of walnuts, and 
mix the sand well with it. After potting 
insert in the pots several tall sticks, round 
these twine the shoots, which should be 
confined to from one to three in number, 
so that the plants may be induced to make 
considerable progress during the season. 
When potted place them in an ordinary 
greenhouse, and encourage growth by the 
usual means of damping the atmosphere in 
bright weather, and shutting up early with 
sun-heat, as also syringing freely overhead. 
Beyond this nothing will be required 
through the growing season except keep- 
ing the shoots regularly trained round the 
sticks. If this is not attended to they get 
entangled in a way that renders it difficult 
afterwards to separate them. As autumn 
approaches give more air, and discontinue 
the use of thesyringe. Winter the plants in 
the usual greenhouse temperature of about 
40° in the night. Warmer than this they 
should not be kept, or they will be in- 
duced to make growth through that which 
ought to be a season of complete rest pre- 
vious to planting out. This will be un- 
derstood from the plant being indigenous 
to a country where the winters are cool. 
Prepare the border in which they are to 
be planted by efficient drainage, well- 
secured from the soil getting down into it 
by a layer of fibrous material, than which 
for a strong-growing subject of this deserip- 
tion there is nothing better than a thin, 
turfy sod of about an inch in thickness 
that has lain together sufficiently long for 
the grass to have become decayed. ‘This, 
if put on the turfy side downwards, will 
for years exclude the finer particles of soil 
from getting down into the drainage, 
which is better for being some 6 inches in 
depth. Previous to planting out this and 
all other climbers, especially in green- 
houses and conservatories, care should be 
taken that they are perfectly free from any 
of the worse kinds of insects, such as scale 
or mealy bug, for, if plants to occupy a 
