found the best course is to put the plants 
in the fire, as the trouble in completely 
eradicating the pest is greater than they 
are worth, and the brown species is a source 
of continual annoyance. 
When these plants were scarcer than at 
present, and there was usually a reluctance 
to sacrifice the shoots for layering, pro- 
pagation from cuttings was often resorted 
to, but this is a slower method, and layer- 
ing is now in most cases adopted. The 
course to pursue is where stout plants are 
at hand to layer all or such portion of the 
shoots as required in autunin ; all that is 
needed is to put an inch or two of mode- 
rately fine peat mixed with sand on the 
surface of the bed in which the plant is 
grown, or, if in a pot or tub, to fill a large 
box or pot with the peat and sand, stand- 
ing it near the plant so as to admit of the 
shoots to be operated on being bent and 
pegged down their whole length so that 
the stem is covered about an inch with the 
peat, thus covering the stalks of the leaves 
and about one-third of the leaf-blade. 
The shoots can be coiled round on the 
surface of the box or pot so as to occupy 
the whole; keep the soil moderately moist, 
in this way the buds at the base of the 
leaves will emit roots and make shoots 
which will appear during the ensuing 
spring. Each of these must be supported 
with a stick round which it will twine. 
During the summer syringe slightly over- 
head ; about midsummer they should be 
taken off with their roots intact, and put 
singly in 5 or 6 inch pots filled with 
soil of a similar description to that in 
which the shoots were layered. Water 
must be given as required, and the young 
plants encouraged to get established before 
winter, during which keep at an ordinary 
greenhousetemperature. The weaker plants 
had better be grown on another season in 
the pots they occupy; the strongest should 
be moved about March, loosen the roots 
a little, if these are plentiful give a 3-inch 
shift, making the new soil quite firm. It 
is not yet advisable to put them on a per- 
manent trellis, but they should have five 
or six good sticks a yard in length inserted 
in the new soil just inside the rims of the 
pots, and round these the shoots should be 
trained. These, as growth extends, should 
be regularly attended to all through the 
summer, as, if the tender points are allowed 
to become entangled they cannot afterwards 
be separated without injury. At all times 
they require plenty of air, but do not like 
cold draughts. After potting the plants 
should be placed in a house or pit where an 
ordinary greenhouse temperature is kept 
up. If subjected to more heat than this 
Greenhouse and Stove Pl 
LAPAGERIA, 
the growth produced is generally so soft 
that the yowng leaves are liable to injury 
by very little exposure to the sun. After 
potting do not give water for a few days, 
but the soil must at no time be allowed to. 
get as dry as would be necessary with most 
things. As the weather gets warmer give 
air, and when they have commenced to 
grow freely a slight damping overhead 
with the syringe in the afternoons will be 
beneficial. The habit of the plants is such, 
naturally breaking up from the bottom, 
that no stopping is required. All that is 
necessary through the spring and summer 
will be to attend to training the shoots, 
giving plenty of water to the soil as the 
roots begin growing well, to admit air 
freely in accordance with the state of the 
weather, and to shade slightly when the 
sun is powerful. In the autumn discon- 
tinue shading and the use of the syringe, 
giving abundance of air to discourage 
further growth. Through the winter a 
night temperature of 35° or 40°, according 
to the state of the weather, will be suffi- 
cient, reduce the amount of water to the 
roots, but never allow the soil to become 
dry. About the same time in the spring 
again repot, letting the size of the shift be 
proportionate to the progress the plants 
have made. If roots are plentiful, pots 3 
or 4 inches larger will be required ; use 
the best fibrous peat that can be got, and 
at the same time loosen all the shoots from 
the sticks, and replace these with others 
taller, so as to accommodate the increased 
crowth. Treat through the summer as in 
the previous season, and again in theautumn 
and winter keep them cool. 
By the time of the next shift in spring 
the plants, if growth has gone on as may 
be expected, will be large enough to be 
placed on a wire trellis, not too big, 
although the rate of yearly increase in 
size will now be considerable, as the 
shoots thrown up from the base will be 
very much stronger than those which were 
produced at first ; disperse them over the 
trellis, so as to furnish it evenly, and wind , 
the strong young shoots that rise from the 
bottom regularly round it. The growth 
should not be kept trained down, but 
cught to be run up strings tied to the top 
of the trellis, and thence in an upright 
direction to the roof. Up these the shoots 
should be kept trained, where they will 
complete their growth and set flowers, 
after which they can easily be wound 
round the trellis, where they will expand 
through the advanced summer and autumn. 
All now required is to continue the same 
treatment winter and summer as pre- 
viously advised, giving more root-room 
