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with no length of foot-staik, it is necessary 
in cutting them to take some little of the 
wood with several of the leaves attached. 
Growths that are weakly are generally 
devoid of the buds above-mentioned, and 
if the flowers from them are cut with the 
buds that are immediately at the base of 
the flowers they rarely break freely, more 
often not at all; but when strong buds 
such as pointed out exist, these will push 
growth when the points of the shoots with 
the blooms have been removed. It is thus 
necessary to use discrimination in cutting 
the flowers of these Daphnes, or it will in- 
duce the bare, naked condition so often 
seen. When it happens that a plant is 
altogether weak it should not be cut at all. 
The treatment in after years should be 
similar to that which has been so far ad- 
vised, with the exception that it is not 
requisite to grow them in anything above 
a greenhouse temperature. <A 12 or 14 
inch pot is big enough for them when they 
arrive at a large size. When the pots 
get full of roots the plants should be well 
supplied with manure-water during the 
growing season. Where there is not the 
convenience for giving them in their early 
stages a little extra warmth, as above ad- 
vised, they should not be potted before 
the end of April ; and during the summer 
ought to be kept as warm as circumstances 
will permit, by closing the house early, 
treating them in other respects as advised 
under the quicker method of growth. 
The two varieties, D. indica alba and D. 
indica rubra, differ but little in general ap- 
pearance. The flowers of the latter are 
higher coloured than those of the former. 
D. japonica variegata is also well worth 
growing, both for its flowers and hand- 
some variegated foliage. It succeeds under 
similar treatment to the others. 
Insects.—These Daphnes are not much 
troubled by insects, but sometimes the 
young shoots are attacked by green- 
fly, for which fumigate with tobacco; 
thrips also will prey upon the leaves, and 
the best remedy is to dip or syringe with 
tobacco-water. If brown scale gets upon 
them it must be removed with a sponge, 
as any solution strong enough to kill it is 
liable to injure the leaves. 
DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNICA. 
A most singular greenhouse plant, nearly 
allied to the Sarracenias, and even more 
curious in the formation of its leaves, 
which are hollow like those of Sarrace- 
nias ; in appearance they are most like 8. 
variolaris, being hooded at the top like 
that species, but its leaves attain a much 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
DASYLIRION, 
larger size, being, in a well grown example, 
as much as 18 or 20 inches high, and pro- 
portionate in circumference. The white 
and red variegation is very beautiful when 
the cultivation is such as to bring out the 
true character. 
The method of propagation is similar to 
that advised for Sarracenias, which see. 
Being a swamp plant, like the Sarracenias, 
it must have an abundance of water while 
making growth, and at no time must it be 
dry at the root. It will not bear as much 
warmth as even the coolest kinds of Sar- 
racenia like; a cold frame with the pots 
plunged in some moisture-holding material, 
and the lights tilted so as to admit abun- 
dance of air, is what it likes; or it will 
succeed in an airy greenhouse without any 
shade, as plenty of sun is needful to bring 
out the full amount of colour in the pitchers. 
It comes from California. 
DASYLIRION. 
These are very slow-growing evergreen 
greenhouse Bromeliaceous plants, with a 
singular but elegant habit of growth. They 
form thick short trunks, like those of Cycas 
revoluta, and kindred species ; the stems 
are slowly developed, being formed as the 
leaves, which are very persistent, die off. 
The leaves of Dasylirions are long, narrow, 
and bayonet-shaped, and armed with spines 
along their whole length, erect at first, 
but as they get older assuming an elegant 
arched drooping position. The most-singu- 
lar matter connected with Dasylirions, is 
that from the first of the leaves issuing 
from the stem the extremities for an inch 
or two are dead, the dead part as the leaves 
get older splitting up into thin filaments 
and reflexing, assuming the appearance of 
a small brush, giving the plants a most 
distinct and singnlar aspect. They are 
handsome decorative plants for a conserva- 
tory, and equally useful for standing out 
on a terrace or lawn in the summer time, 
the hard texture of their leaves fitting 
them well for exposure in the open air 
in this way. They are increased by suckers 
which are produced sparsely from the base 
of the stem of old plants, or from a large 
example that has bloomed, the flowering 
usually having the effect of causing the 
production of suckers. These suckers 
should be taken off when they have formed 
several small leaves, say about 6 or 8 inches 
long ; and the tufts of leaves, with a bit of 
stem attached, should early in spring be 
cut clean away from the old trunk, and 
put singly in pots sufficiently large to hold 
them, filled with half sand and sifted loam. 
Stand them in a temperature of 60°, shaded 
