CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS. 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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in or out of flower. Suitable for a large 
greenhouse or conservatory. 
Clethras are increased by cuttings of the 
three-parts ripened shoots, put in about 
August, several together, in pots filled with 
sand, kept moist, shaded, and covered with 
a propagating glass, in a temperature of 
65°. When rooted move them singly to 
3-inch pots in peat and a little sand, 
and keep them a little close for a few 
weeks until the roots have begun to 
move freely. Then dispense with the 
glasses and reduce the heat somewhat for 
the winter—say to 55° in the night—but it 
will be well to keep them at about this for 
the first season, as they will then attain a 
much better size than if allowed to remain 
stagnant until spring. About April they 
will most likely require moving into pots 
2 inches larger, using soil similar to that 
given at the first potting. Ifa little more 
warmth than that of a greenhouse can be 
given the plants until the end of May it 
will bean advantage. Now stop the shoots ; 
let them have plenty of light, with air and 
a little shade when the sun is bright, syring- 
ing overhead every afternoon. During the 
summer an ordinary greenhouse tempera- 
ture will suffice, as also through the autumn 
and winter. Again in spring give them a 
2 or 3 inch shift, according to the progress 
made. Keep a little close for a week or 
two, and then treat as recommended the 
previous summer. After this all that is 
necessary is to give pot-room as required 
so as to get the plants on in size, as they 
are much more effective then than while 
small. They will last for many years if 
given enough root-room and manure-water 
in the growing season. 
The following kinds are the most suit- 
able for greenhouse cultivation :— 
C. arborea. Flowers white, blooms in 
summer or autumn. <A native of Madeira. 
C. arborea minor. A smaller growing 
variety of the above; the flowers are 
similar, and it blooms at the same season. 
Madeira. 
C. ferruginea. Flowers white, blooms in 
summer and autumn. Introduced from 
Peru. 
Insectrs.—Aphides sometimes attack the 
young shoots; to destroy them fumigate. 
Should scale be troublesome sponging must 
be resorted to. 
CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS. 
This, the Glory Pea of New Zealand, is 
a most distinct and handsome as well as 
free-flowering evergreen greenhouse plant. 
It produces its splendid crimson-coloured, 
singularly-shaped flowers freely in bunches, 
almost as large as an epaulette, during the 
summer months, at which time it is a very 
suitable subject for conservatory decora- 
tion, where it will last for a considerable 
time in bloom, and is not so liable as some 
other things are to be injured by being for 
a time somewhat confined. It possesses 
also the great recommendation of having a 
good constitution, it isa free grower, and 
does not often get out of health. Good 
sandy fibrous loam will grow it well; peat 
may be used if the former is not at hand, 
but where loam such as above described 
can be had, it will induce a freer disposi- 
tion to flower. 
This Clianthus is easily increased from 
cuttings of the young shoots, taken off 
when 4 or 5 inches long, with a heel— 
these may usually be had in right condi- 
tion about May. Put them singly in small 
pots filled with sand, and kept close, moist, 
/and shaded in an intermediate tempera- 
ture, they will root by the middle of June, 
when inure them to more air and less 
shade. In the course of a month they 
should have made enough roots to bear 
moving into 4 or 5 inch pots; pinch out 
the points of the shoots, after which con- 
tinue to keep them warm and moderately 
close, so as to encourage both root and top 
growth. Give a little shade when the 
weather is bright, and syringe overhead in 
the afternoons. At the end of August give 
more air, and cease shading and syringing 
so as to get the growth solidified. Through 
the winter the usual greenhouse treatment 
as to warmth, air, and water will suffice ; 
about the beginning of April the roots will 
commence to move, and they may be 
turned out of their pots and their condi- 
tion examined. If well rooted give a 3-inch 
shift ; this will be enough, for, although, 
as has been above stated, the plant is a 
good grower, it does not make roots in 
such quantities as some subjects of even 
smaller growth. Let the soil be well 
broken by hand, and as much sand added 
as will keep it in the requisite porous state ; 
drain the pots sufficiently and make the 
soil moderately firm, then at once tie the 
branches well out. 
It is of a somewhat stiff erect habit of 
growth, and, unless the training is attended 
to in the early stages, it becomes difficult 
subsequently to deal with and liable to 
break. From this cause the plants gene- 
rally seen are somewhat leggy and soon get 
bare at the bottom, a condition that cannot 
afterwards be corrected. At the time it is 
thus tied out take off the points of the 
leading shoots, place the plants in a pit or 
house, amongst any ordinary young hard- 
wooded stock, where they will be kept a 
