GARDENIA. 
F. Earl of Beaconsfield. 
F. Eclipse. 
F’. Enoch Arden. 
F. Gaspar. 
F. Lord Derby. 
F. Sir W. G. Armstrong. 
F. Swanley Gem. 
F. Try me O. 
F. Wave of Life. 
SINGLE LIGHT VARIETIES. 
F. Arabella. 
F.. Covent Garden White. 
F. Evening Star. 
F. Guiding Star. 
F. Lady Heytesbury. 
F. Lustre. 
F. Maid of Honour. 
F, marginata. 
F. Minnie Banks. 
F, Rose of Castile. 
VARIETIES WITH WHITE COROLLAS. 
F. Avalanche. (Smith) Double. 
F. Cannell’s Gem. Single. 
F. Delight. Single. 
F. Jeanne @Arc. Single. 
F. Kingsburyana. Double. 
F. Miss Lucy Finnis. Double. 
F. Mrs. E. Bennett. Single. 
F. Mrs. H. Cannell. Double. 
DOUBLE DARK VARIETIES. 
F. Alpha. 
F. Avalanche. (Henderson.) 
F. Depute Berlet. 
F. Harvest Home. 
F. King of the doubles. 
F’. Nestor. 
FF’. Sir Garnet Wolseley. 
F. Tower of London. 
The following species, and 
hybrids, are handsome kinds :— 
F. Corallina. 
F. corymiiflora. 
F. corymbiflora alba. 
F. Dominiana. 
F. procumbens. 
F. splendens. 
Insects.—Fuchsias are much subject to 
the attacks of both red spider and aphides ; 
for the former syringe continually through 
the growing season ; for aphides, fumigate 
with tobacco, repeating the application, 
but not severely, until the insects are de- 
stroyed. 
distinct 
GARDENIA. 
Few stove plants are such general 
favourites as Gardenias, and few have so 
many properties calculated to render them 
generally useful. Considerable numbers 
of them come from China, the East and 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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/them into 3 or 4 inch pots. 
| grow in either peat or loam, but the former, 
West Indies, South America, and one or 
two from Sierra Leone, of which the 
singular G. Stanleyana, so very unlike the 
generality of the other species, is a note- 
worthy example. With one or two 
exceptions, they are all evergreen shrubs, 
mostly possessing a dense, compact habit 
of growth. The species held in high 
estimation are comparatively few, but these 
few are deservedly prized for their exquisite 
fragrance, and for the freedom with which 
their blossoms are produced during a con- 
siderable portion of the year, especially in 
the spring, when sweet-scented flowers are 
scarce. They are also particularly well 
adapted for bouquets and the decoration of 
vases on account of their soft milky-white 
colour and agreeable perfume. The un- 
opened buds and newly-expanded flowers 
ot G. citriodora—quite distinct in appear- 
ance from the other members of the family 
—are largely used in place of Orange 
blossom, for which they form a by no 
means indifferent substitute. To have 
Gardenias in flower in winter the plants 
require to be prepared by well maturing 
their growth in autumn, but they should 
never be allowed to become quite dormant 
through want of warmth. They are easily 
grown, and are remarkably free bloomers, 
but there is one point in their cultivation 
that demands special notice, and that is 
that where required to be grown in any- 
thing approaching acondition that will fully 
exemplify their flowering capabilities, they 
must be kept free from the attacks of 
insects, such as mealy bug, a pest with 
which they are great favourites, and 
which, if once allowed to obtain a footing, - 
will give an unlimited amount of trouble. 
The propagation of Gardenias is easy if 
cuttings from half or fully ripened shoots 
are made in March, at which time they 
can be had in that condition from plants 
that have been kept in a brisk heat through 
the winter for early flowering ; insert them 
singly in small pots drained and half filled 
with a mixture of equal parts of peat and 
sand, finishing off with fine sand and 
covering with a propagating glass. If 
placed in a temperature of 70° and kept 
moist they will root in a few weeks, when 
the glass may be removed. In May move 
They will 
where it can be had of a fibrous character, 
is best. If peat of a heavy close description 
only is obtainable, it is better to grow them 
in turfy loam ; break the fibrous parts up 
into small pieces, and add one-sixth of 
rotten manure and as much sand as will 
keep the whole porous; in all stages of 
their existence this is necessary, as they 
