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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
LAPAGERIA. 
end of July the flowers will commence to 
open, after which keep cool and shaded 
from the sun. When the blooming is over 
give plenty of air, and less water to the 
roots, and allow them to go to rest in the 
autumn. Winter as before, and in the 
spring again repeat the cutting back, and 
repotting, treating afterwards as recom- 
mended for the preceding season. So 
managed the plants will last for several 
years. There are two forms of this Lager- 
stroemia, one bearing flesh-coloured flowers, 
the other rose-coloured; both are well worth 
growing. 
Insects.—Red spider will live on these 
plants, but the use of the syringe advised 
will usually be found sufficient to keep this 
insect down. For aphides fumigate. 
LALAGE. 
These are pretty Leguminous plants, 
natives of New Holland, but not now 
much grown. They require similar treat- 
ment to the Hoveas, which see. 
There are only two or three species in 
cultivation. 
I. ornata. Has yellow flowers, and 
blooms in spring. 
L. tenuifolia. Also a spring bloomer. 
LAMBERTIA. 
These are evergreen greenhouse shrubs, 
of moderate size, from New Holland. The 
flowers are pretty, but not very effective. 
They succeed with treatment such as re- 
quired by Boronias, which see. 
The two following kinds are the best 
representatives of the genus :— 
L. formosa. Flowers red, produced in 
summer. 
L. uniflora. White. Also a summer 
bloomer. 
LANTANA. 
These are quick growing evergreen 
greenhouse shrubs, bearing pretty globular 
heads of flowers, produced freely over a 
long period in summer and autumn. 
They are easily grown, and at one time 
were much more generally in fashion than 
at present. The present race of varieties 
have been raised from seeds of the original 
kinds, indigenous to South America and 
adjacent parts. 
They strike easily from cuttings made of 
the young soft shoots, taken off early in 
spring and put an inch apart in 5 or 6 
inch pots in sand; kept close, moist, and 
shaded in a temperature of 60° they will 
root in a fortnight, after which expose 
them to the air of the house, and move 
singly into 38-inch pots in turfy loam, to 
which add some leaf-mould and sand. 
Keep in a similar temperature during the 
night to that in which they were struck, 
letting it rise by day, with some air given 
and a little shade when the sun is bright. 
Pinch out the points of the shoots as soon 
as top growth has fairly commenced ; 
Lantanas are very quick growers and will 
again require stopping, and in a few weeks 
moving into 8 or 9 inch pots ; give them 
rich soil of a similar description to that 
used at the first potting. Now syringe freely 
overhead every evening, and again stop the 
points of the shoots ; give more air as the 
season advances, and put a stick to sup- 
port the principal shoot of each plant. 
They will flower through the summer and 
autumn, during which time they will be 
benefited by the application of manure- 
water two or three times a week. Grow- 
ing so quickly as Lantanas do they need a 
good deal of moisture to the roots, and 
must not be allowed to go short, or their 
blooming will be interfered with. 
In the autumn keep the soil drier, and 
winter out of the reach of frost. In the 
spring, if large plants are required, they 
may be freely cut back and moved into 
larger pots, partially removing the old 
soil and replacing it with new; or if 
smaller examples are deemed preferable 
discard the old plants, only keeping enough 
to furnish cuttings. 
The following are a good selection of 
sorts :— 
L: Don Calmet. 
L. Distinction. Orange scarlet. 
L. Herione. Crimson and dark brown. 
L. Favouriia. Yellow and_ reddish 
brown. 
LL. Innocence. 
L. La Neige. White. 
L. Le Styz. Red, shaded with crimson. 
L. Magenta King. Reddish purple. 
L. Mons. Roucier Chauviere. Yellow and 
red. 
L. Rayon de Soliel. Yellow and violet. 
Insects.—The regular use of the syringe 
is usually sufficient to keep down red spider. 
For aphides fumigate. 
Yellow and pink. 
Sulphur and white. 
LAPAGERIA. 
Few plants, certainly no greenhouse 
climbers, possess so many desirable pro- 
perties as do the white and red forms of 
Lapageria. When the red variety was 
first seen, flowered in a manner that only 
gave an imperfect idea of what it has since 
proved to be, all who saw it pronounced it 
one of the very finest plants ever intro- 
