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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
GOMPHRENA. 
will receive plenty of light, and not be 
crowded too closely among other plants. 
As soon as the flowering is over remove 
them to the hardwooded house, and treat 
as advised for the preceding season, except 
that this summer they will not require a 
second potting, except in the case of any 
individual plant that appears unusually 
strong, and gives evidence of more than 
ordinary root-power. Such may receive 
at the end of June a 3-inch shift, but with 
these exceptions the spring potting will be 
enough. Attend well to the plants through 
the summer, more especially in the matter 
of water, which should never be given to 
them by inexperienced hands, or all the 
previous care will very likely be thrown 
away. Graduallyinure to all the air possible 
through the autumn, without placing them 
in a cold draught too near where air is 
admitted. They must never be submitted 
to exposure in the open air, as in the case 
of such plants as are stronger in constitution 
or require it to induce a flowering dis- 
position. These Gompholobiums are 
naturally such free-bloomers, that if in 
health they are certain to bloom profusely. 
Continue to give the necessary attention 
to training before the shoots get too much 
entangled, and in the winter remove all 
the sticks, using in their place such as will 
meet the requirements of increased growth. 
Through the winter keep them where the 
temperature will be a little over that 
required for the greater number of green- 
house hardwooded subjects, say not lower 
than 40° in the night. In the succeeding 
May and June they should make good 
blooming plants, fit for exhibition if so 
required. They should not be placed 
where they will be subjected to a low 
temperature, such as many plants can bear 
early in the spring in a north retarding 
house, or the chances are that there will be 
serious loss of leaf through mildew ; but, 
as their flowers begin to open in May, they 
may with advantage be removed to such a 
situation ; it will otherwise be necessary to 
shade them while in flower, as the sun 
destroys the beautiful bright colour of the 
flowers. 
After blooming this season lay the plants 
on their sides, and give a good washing 
with clean water applied by the syringe. 
This will remove any dirt that may have 
accumulated on the leaves while in flower, 
and keep down insects. As soon as they 
have pushed freely into growth give such 
as seen to require it a 3-inch shift; this 
will be as much as even the strongest 
plants of Gompholobium will ever need. 
They naturally flower in a younger state 
than many things, and consequently do not 
often last so long. Such as retain health 
and keep on growing until the soil gets at 
all exhausted, may be assisted with weak 
manure-water in the season of active 
growth. As these plants are not so long 
lived as some others it is well to keep up 
the stock by each year starting two or 
three young ones to take the place of any 
that may go off. 
G. barbigerum. Is one of the purest 
yellow flowers in existence, and is a general 
favourite. 
G. polymorphum  splendens. This, the 
best of the genus, has dark crimson flowers, 
with a lighter-coloured eye, three-fourths 
of an inch in diameter. In a well-grown 
healthy plant they are produced in quan- 
tities for from four to six weeks during the 
spring. The plant has when either in or 
out of flower a very distinct appearance. 
Insects.—We have already alluded to 
these plants being subject to red spider and 
pointed to the necessity for a vigilant look- 
out for this insect; this is the more 
necessary as they are sparse-leaved, and if 
once their leaves are seriously injured the 
roots will suffer in proportion, and the 
plants will never afterwards look so well. 
They are sometimes attacked by aphides 
upon the points of the young shoots, but 
these can easily be kept down by fumiga- 
tion. 
GOMPHRENA. 
(Globe Amaranth.) 
This old well-known annual is a native 
of India, and is one of a genus most of 
which are plants of shrubby habit. The 
long duration of its hard papery textured 
flowers make it valuable for decoration 
in the greenhouse or dwelling. The seeds 
should be sown about April in pans filled 
with fine soil in a hot-bed, house, or pit, 
where a temperature of about 60° can be 
maintained with the soil kept moderately 
moist. The plants will soon come up, 
when stand near the glass, shading slightly 
from the sun, and give air in the day. As 
soon as the young seedlings are 2 or 3 
inches high move singly into 3-inch pots, 
using good turfy loam well enriched; keep 
a little close for a few days, after which 
give a moderate amount of air in the day 
with a little shade when required. Syringe 
overhead and keep the soil moderately 
moist. When the roots have got full hold 
of the soil move into 6 or 7 inch pots, 
which will be large enough for them to 
flower in. After this treat as before ; the 
plant is naturally of a branching habit, but 
as they grow larger each will require a 
small stick to support the leading stem. 
