CORDYLINE. 
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from the bed in which the pots were 
plunged the temperature should be kept 
up to 70° so as to keep the growth moving 
freely. Under this high pressure forcing 
the crowns should be started about four 
weeks before the flowers are wanted. 
When clumps are used instead of selected 
crowns, they require larger pots, and they 
are better adapted for later flowering when 
slower forcing will suffice. 
CONVOLVULUS MAURITANICUS. 
Among the large number of the climb- 
ing or twining kinds of Convolvulus there 
are few held in much favour for cultivation 
in greenhouses, yet the species under notice 
bears effective flowers, and the habit of the 
plant is such as to render it suitable for a 
greenhouse. 
It is an herbaceous perennial, and can be 
raised from seeds sown in pots filled with 
ordinary loam in a greenhouse early in 
spring; move them singly into pots as 
soon as large enough to handle, after which 
grow on under greenhouse treatment, 
training the shoots over the space they are 
to cover, and giving increased root-room as 
it is required. The flowers are blue; it 
blooms for a considerable time in summer. 
From Sicily. 
Insects.—Greenfly frequently affects the 
young shoots ; fumigation is the remedy. 
COPROSMA BAUERIANA 
VARIEGATA. 
A variegated evergreen plant from New 
Zealand, that, when well grown, is effective 
among the green-leaved inmates of the 
greenhouse. 
It is propagated by cuttings of the soft 
shoots taken off in spring when about 2 or 
3 inches long, put in pots filled with sand, 
and kept close, shaded, moist, and warm. 
The treatment required from the cutting 
stage and onwards is such as Fuchsias need, 
and the young plants should be kept warm 
so as to accelerate growth until they get 
to moving freely. The leading shoots 
should have their points pinched out two 
or three times during the spring and 
summer to cause freer growth in the side 
branches, which in their turn must also 
have their points pinched, otherwise the 
plants have a_ straggling appearance. 
Each spring cut the shoots in moderately 
before growth begins. Ordinary loam and 
sand with some leaf-mould is the best 
material to grow this plant in, with pot- 
room such as required for Fuchsias. There 
is a green-leaved form that succeeds under 
like treatment. 
InsEcts.—Thrips, aphides, and red spider 
often attack these plants in spring and 
summer ; to keep them down syringe daily 
through the growing season. 
CORDYLINE INDIVISA. 
This is a greenhouse ornamental-leaved. 
plant from New Zealand, nearly allied to 
the Draczenas, but requiring to be diffe- 
rently treated, and is so much more difficult 
to grow that it is better to treat of its cul- 
tivation separately. When fully grown 
and in good condition, it is one of the 
handsomest of the variegated-leaved plants 
that are now so much cultivated. The 
leaves are pale green, the midrib and 
lateral nerves of a beautiful coral red. 
It is raised from seeds which should be 
sown at the beginning of the year in large 
pans in a mixture of fine-sifted loam, peat, 
and sand, covering the seed slightly ; keep 
in a temperature of about 60° in the night, 
just moistening the soil sufficiently to 
enable the seeds to vegetate. In the 
spring, or as soon after as the seedlings are 
large enough to move put.them in 3-inch 
pots, now using good yellow loam with a 
moderate addition of sand, draining the 
pots well, as the plant is very impatient of 
anything approaching stagnant moisture 
about the roots. The best place for the 
young stock through the summer will be in 
a pit which can be kept a little closer than 
an ordinary greenhouse ; this will slightly 
accelerate their growth. Shade slightly in 
bright weather. It may be well to mention 
here that this Cordyline requires to be very | 
carefully watered in all its stages, but more 
particularly as it gets large with a con- 
siderable body of soil about its roots, 
consequently it must never be watered 
until the soil is approaching a condition 
of dryness suchas the roots would not longer 
bear without checking growth; when 
water is given it must be in quantity that 
will fairly moisten the soil, not more. 
Winter in a temperature of about 50° by 
night, and early in spring move the plants 
into pots 4 or 5 inches larger, using soil as 
before, and keep them through the summer 
at a greenhouse temperature with plenty of 
light. They should now do without 
shading except so far as may be necessary 
to prevent the leaves getting scorched 
should the glass in the roof be of a de- 
scription likely to thus injure them, in 
which case a little shade in the middle of 
the day may be needful. It is well always 
to keep this Cordyline a little warmer in 
the winter than most greenhouse plants, 
say 45° in the night, or a degree or two 
higher will benefit it. If they do well 
