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Insects. — As already intimated, red 
spider is partial to these Cytisuses, but where 
the precaution of diligent syringing is con- 
tinued through the growing season this 
pest can be easily kept in check. If by 
any chance it happens to get a footing on 
them it can be destroyed by dipping, or 
thoroughly syringing overhead with in- 
secticide. If affected with brown scale, 
dip or wash with strong insecticide when 
the plants have been cut back before 
growth commences. 
DAMONOROPS. 
A genus of quick-growing stove Palms, 
with somewhat slender stems, and large, 
handsome leaves. 
Propagation and cultivation given under 
Palms, general details of culture. 
D. fissus. A distinct and handsome 
species. From India, 
D. palembanicus. A stately species, with 
large arched pinnate leaves; the pinne 
long and about 3 inches broad ; the leaf- 
stalks are stout, proportionate in length, 
and furnished with large and formidable 
spines. It comes from Java. 
DALECHAMPIA ROEZLIANA 
ROSEA. 
This plant is more singular than hand- 
some ; the flowers, or rather the bracts, 
which are most conspicuous, are deep pink 
in colour, produced in summer, but are not 
so effective as to give it a high position 
among flowering stove species. 
It is easily propagated from cuttings 
of the soft shoots, which if put in sand 
during spring, kept moist, close, and 
shaded in a temperature of 70°, will 
root in a few weeks, when they should be 
moved singly to 4-inch pots. Ordinary 
loam with a little leaf-mould and sand 
will grow the plant well ; stop the points 
of the shoots, and keep in an ordinary 
stove temperature, with shade and air in 
the day, and a moist atmosphere. It is a 
rapid grower, and will bear moving into 8 
or 9 inch pots by the middle of June, when 
again stop the shoots. Continue to treat 
as before until autumn, and winter in a 
night temperature of 65°. Give pots a 
couple of sizes larger in spring, raising the 
temperature, and treating generally as in 
the summer before. The plants will 
bloom for a considerable period during the 
season ; they will flower in a small state 
if little plants are thought desirable. 
From Vera Cruz. 
Insxcts.—Red spider and aphides are 
sometimes troublesome, especially the 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
DAPHNE INDICA, 
former, if syringing is not attended to 
daily in the growing season ; for aphides 
fumigate. 
DAMMARA. 
Most of the cultivated species of these 
plants attain the proportions of trees ; but, 
like the Araucarias, can be kept for a time 
so that they can be accommodated in a 
good-sized conservatory, where from their 
distinct appearance they are effective. 
They thrive under conditions such as 
advised for Araucarias, which see. 
D. alba. Origin uncertain. 
D. Brownti. Origin uncertain. 
D. Moorei. A native of New Caledonia. 
D. obtusa. Comes from Aniteura. 
DAPHNE INDICA. 
This highly fragrant evergreen green- 
house plant, of which two varieties occur, 
isa native of China. It is a somewhat 
slow grower, compact in habit, and does 
not attain a large size, but it has a re- 
markably free disposition to bloom. There 
are few flowers, excepting the Rose, 
more prized for their fragrance than these 
Daphnes. A small plant when in bloom will 
scent a whole house. For this purpose 
they are highly esteemed for placing in 
conservatories, especially when these are 
connected with dwellings where the pre- 
sence of fragrant flowers is a desideratum. 
The large number of Daphnes annually 
propagated in some nurseries, coupled 
with their being such general favourites, 
would lead to the supposition that they 
would be more frequently met with than 
they are. That they are not so much 
grown is accounted for by the fact that, 
although easy enough to grow when they 
receive the treatment they require, they 
are almost certain to die or linger outa 
dwindling existence if managed on the 
unintelligent system of treating all things 
alike that will conform to any particular 
temperature, more especially in the two 
very important operations of potting and 
watering. 
It is to the fact of these plants being too 
often treated after this general sort of 
fashion that their not thriving with many 
growers is to be attributed. Either when 
grafted or on their own roots they are very 
spare rooters, and cannot bear over-potting. 
If as much root-room is given them as re- 
quired by many things it is all but im- 
possible to keep them in health. They — 
are also very impatient of too much water, 
and never, even when making active 
growth, must water be given before it is 
