COLEUS. 
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from the sea. It is a handsome plant, but 
requires much room if grown sufficiently 
large to exhibit its true character. From 
India. 
C. Weddelliana. One of the most 
beautiful of all Palms, resembling much in 
general appearance the most elegant-habited 
kinds of Chameedorea. The stem is slender, 
the leaves pinnate, pinnz long and very 
narrow, foot-stalks short : collectively this 
plant has a charming appearance. Rio 
Negro. 
COFFEA. 
The Coffee of commerce. Both C. 
arabica, a native of Yemen, and C. liberica, 
from Liberia, are handsome evergreen 
trees, interesting on account of the im- 
mense extent to which the berries are 
used in so many parts of the world. 
They are easily raised from seed, which 
should be sown in shallow pans filled with 
a mixture of sifted peat and sand, standing 
the pans in a temperature of 70°. When 
the plants come up place them near the 
light. If the seeds are sown during the 
latter end of summer the plants may 
remain in the seed-pans until the following 
spring, when they must be moved to 3-inch 
pots, in soil similar to that in which the 
seed was sown; as solar heat increases 
raise the temperature, giving air daily, 
with a little shade, and syringing overhead 
freely in the evenings. Through the latter 
part of spring and summer a night tempera- 
ture of 70° with 15° more in the day will 
be found suitable; winter at about 60°. 
In spring again give larger pots, and raise 
the heat as in the preceding year ; during 
the season of active growth give water 
freely, and apply less in winter. A 
continuance of the treatment so far advised 
is all that is necessary, with additional 
pot-room as found requisite. The plants 
attain considerable size if sufficient head- 
room and root-space are given them. The 
flowers, which are white, are interesting as 
well as the berries. The two kinds are 
much alike in their habit of growth. 
Insects.—Scale is the worst insect to 
which these plants are subject ; sponging 
is the best means of keeping it down. 
Mealy bug, which will also live on them, 
can be removed by laying the plants on 
their sides and syringing freely with tepid 
water. 
COLEONEMA. 
There are two or three kinds of Coleo- 
nema in cultivation, C. album, C. rubrum, 
and C. tenuifolium. They are low-growing 
evergreen greenhouse shrubs, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, with small insignificant 
flowers. They are now seldom met with, 
being of little value from a horticultural 
point of view. They will succeed under 
treatment similar to that advised for 
Adenandras, which see. 
COLEUS. 
Softwooded stove plants, so well-known 
for the exceedingly bright colours of their 
leaves as to require no comment here, 
further than saying, that the varieties 
raised from seed in recent years possess 
colour such as can scarcely be surpassed. 
Their colour, combined with the excellent 
habit of the plants, the ready way in which 
they may be propagated and afterwards 
grown on, and their adaptability for 
decorative use, renders them indispensable. 
They may be struck from shoot-cuttings at 
any time of the year in heat, confined in a 
close moist atmosphere and shaded from 
the sun ; when they are rooted they must 
be potted on in rich loamy soil with some 
leaf-mould added. Give pots proportionate 
to the size the plants are required to be 
grown to, and shade slightly from the sun 
in very bright weather, but at the same 
time give plenty of light, with enough air 
to keep the shoots from getting drawn. 
The following are fine kinds :— 
C. Allan Chandler. Maroon, crimson 
and green leaves. 
C. Cannell’s Lovely. Ground colour 
erimson, with chocolateand green markings. 
C. Conrad Rosenthal. Leaves a mixture 
of yellow, red, green, and maroon. 
C. Ethel Baxter. Cream colour, bright 
green and carmine. 
C. Ernest Benary. Yellow, crimson and 
green. 
C. Fair Maid of Kent. 
yellow. 
C. George Simpson. Maroon and crimson. 
C. Harry Veitch. Yellow, green, and 
Scarlet and 
chocolate. 
C. Illuminator. Green, magenta, and 
maroon. 
C. John Benary. Bright scarlet and 
yellow. 
C. Maggie. 
and green. 
C. Miss Rosina. Yellow, maroon, crimson, 
and pale green. 
C. Mrs. Baxter. Crimson and green. 
C. Mrs. George Simpson. Deep crimson 
and mulberry colour. 
C. Mrs. Knatchbull-Hugessen. Gold and 
deep maroon. 
UC. Pompadour. 
green marbling. 
Crimson, yellow, bronze, 
Pink, with white and 
