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can be placed in the conservatory, where 
they will be found very effective at a time 
when the greater portion of flowering 
subjects are over. When done blooming 
the plants may be stood out-of-doors and 
supplied with water until they show signs 
of going to rest, when the quantity given 
must be much reduced, as in the preceding 
antumn, after which cut the shoots down 
and winter as before. In the spring again 
shake them out and remove into pots 4 or 
6 inches larger, which will be as big as 
ever they will require, and treat in every 
way as advised for the previous season. 
So managed they will go on for a number 
of years, throwing up a score or more 
strong blooming shoots. 
Insects.—This Erythrina is not usually 
much troubled with insects ; if greenfly 
makes its appearance they can be destroyed 
by fumigating ; red spider will rarely 
affect it if syringing is attended to as re- 
commended. 
EUCHARIS. 
Of all plants requiring stove treatment 
that have been introduced into Europe 
during the present century there are few, 
if any, that have become more general 
favourites than Eucharis amazonica, or 
that better deserve to be grown by all who 
have the convenience of a house wherein a 
sufficiently high temperature can be main- 
tained. When this plant first made its 
appearance in this country the extreme 
purity of its lovely white flowers, combined 
with their exquisite fragrance, at once pro- 
duced an impression in its favour, even 
though imperfectly grown—imperfectly so 
far, that the small-pot culture, to which it 
was then thought best to confine the plant, 
was not such as to admit of that full de- 
velopment which it has since exemplified 
under more liberal treatment. The re- 
striction of its roots to promote flowering 
has been found to be altogether unnecessary 
and to seriously prevent the bulbs from 
increasing as they would do if accommo- 
dated with plenty of space. In this it 
differs from most bulbous plants, the 
generality of which do not succeed well 
under pot culture unless their roots are 
somewhat confined. It has no particular 
season of flowering ; with suitable treat- 
ment the same plants will bloom two or 
three times in the course of the year if 
subjected to alternate short seasons of 
growth and rest. To do it full justice it 
should not be moved when in bloom to a 
conservatory or other house cooler than 
that in which it has been brought into 
flower. Growth should immediately follow 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
EUCHARIS, 
the production of bloom, and it naturally 
receives a check if taken from a warm to a 
cold temperature. It is a remarkably 
effective plant in the stove, its ample deep: 
green leaves setting off to the best ad- 
vantage the numerous umbels of wax-like 
flowers that rise well above them. It is, 
however, especially for the production of 
cut flowers for fillmg vases and for bou- 
quets that it is most valuable, almost 
rivalling in these respects the Camellia 
itself. In addition to the individual 
flowers standing well when cut (which 
their peculiar texture and substance en- 
sure) each umbel opens its blooms con- 
secutively so that almost every flower can 
be used as required, a circumstance that 
has made the plant a general favourite 
with those who grow flowers for market, or 
who have to provide for private establish- 
ments where a continuous supply is needed. 
Propagation is effected by separating the 
bulbs, which increase moderately fast when 
well grown, but, like most other evergreen 
bulbous plants, it does not like to have its 
roots much disturbed. Interfering with 
them, to the extent necessary when sepa- 
rating them, has the effect of retarding 
erowth for a time ; therefore plants of this 
Eucharis should only be broken up when 
they have either got larger than is requisite, 
or when it is desirable to increase their 
number. The time for carrying out the 
operation should also be chosen when 
growth is complete ; it should not be 
attempted when the leaves are in course of 
formation, or when they are not fully 
matured. Let us suppose that early in 
the spring a large plant exists which it is 
deemed advisable to break up. Turn it 
out of the pot, and, if the roots are very 
much matted and the soil is of an adhesive 
character, it will be difficult to separate 
them without breaking ; to avoid this 
place the plant in a tub large enough to 
admit the ball, half fill it with tepid water, 
and work out all the soil with the fingers, 
which will leave the roots so that they can 
be separated with little breakage. The 
bulbs may be divided with a knife at the 
point where they adhere to each other, or 
they may be parted by hand, singly, or 
two or three together, and put in pots 
from 5 inches to 7 inches in diameter. 
When growing, a copious supply of water 
is required ; consequently the pots must 
be well drained. This Eucharis will 
thrive in good turfy loam, to which add as 
much sand as will keep it porous. Pot 
firmly without injuring the roots, and 
cover the bulbs to about half their depth. 
Do not give much water until growth has 
commenced. Place them at once in a 
