SOLLYA, 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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their bright red tint, and after this time no 
more syringing will be required. Through 
the autumn and winter give ordinary green- 
house treatment in the matter of warmth, 
air, and water. Plants that had their 
berries ripe early, and have got shabby, 
may be cut well back early in the year, 
and when they have broken shaken par- 
tially out, put in pots a size larger and 
grown on as in the previous summer. So 
managed they can be used a second season, 
or they may be planted out half a yard 
apart in the open ground, where, if well 
attended to with water to the soil and 
syringing overhead, they will make hand- 
some little specimens by the beginning of 
September, when they should be taken up 
and potted as already indicated. 
Insects.—Red spider, to which these 
Solanums are subject, will be kept down 
if attention as advised in the matter of 
syringing is given. Aphides, which are 
also partial to them, must be destroyed by 
fumigation. 
SOLANUM JASMINOIDES. 
A deciduous climber with pretty flowers, 
suitable for growing on a rafter in a green- 
house. 
It can be struck from cuttings in the 
spring, and grown on similarly to Sollyas, 
which see. It flowers over a considerable 
portion of the summer, and comes from 
South America. 
SOLANUM OVIGERUM. 
Among the annual species of Solanum is 
the singular egg plant; there are several 
forms, differing little in general character 
except in the colour of their fruit, of which 
there are white, red, violet, and yellow 
varieties. 
The cultivation of all is the same ; the 
seeds should be sown in spring, in pots 
or pans filled with fine loamy soil, to which 
some sand has been added; cover them 
lightly, and stand on a moderate hot-bed 
covered with an ordinary frame. Here 
they will do better than in a house. When 
the plants are up put them singly in small 
pots filled with soil well enriched with 
rotten dung, giving larger pots as required 
further on. During the early stages of 
their growth, and until the fruit has at- 
tained its full size, they should be kept in 
genial heat and be well supplied with 
water ; give air daily, with a little shade 
when the sun is powerful, and syringe 
freely overhead to keep down red spider, 
to which they are subject. When the 
fruit has reached its full size and colour 
they may be stood anywhere in a cool 
house. From Africa. 
InsEcrs.—Aphides are partial to these 
plants, and must be destroyed by fumiga- 
tion or they soon spoil the leaves. 
SOLLYA. 
These are very distinct evergreen green- 
house twining plants of slender habit ; 
their pretty flowers bright blue—a colour so 
scarce among hardwooded plants—are pro- 
duced in great profusion during the sum- 
mer and autumn months ; the flowers are 
small individually, but as they are borne 
in quantities the deficiency in size is fully 
compensated for. Plants in a healthy con- 
dition give a succession for a considerable 
time. They are more at home when used 
for training round a pillar in a conservatory, 
or for growing as single pot specimens on 
a trellis or other support, than when em- 
ployed for draping the roof, a purpose that 
can be better effected by plants of larger 
growth. In fact, when grown with a view to 
training the branches to cover any portion 
of the woodwork in the conservatory it will 
generally be found better to confine their 
roots to a pot, unless the size of the border 
into which they are to be turned out is 
very limited, as, though anything but 
delicate rooters, like many of the plants 
that hail from the same region, their roots, 
in keeping with their heads, are of such 
moderate extent that their requirements 
can be better met by pot culture. Sollyas 
strike from cuttings, which should be 
obtained in spring from shoots that have 
some time before been cut back; take 
them off with a heel when about 3 inches 
long, keep close and moderately warm and 
they will strike in a few weeks, when 
move them singly into little pots, stopping 
the points as soon as they begin to grow. 
By the end of June give 4-inch pots, using 
a mixture of peat and sand; from the time 
they are established give them warm green- 
house treatment. A temperature such as 
required by ordinary greenhouse stock will 
answer through the winter. About the 
end of March or beginning of April give 
them a shift into pots 3 inches larger, 
make the soil quite firm, and insert 
half a dozen tolerably tall sticks just 
inside the rims of the pots, as whatever 
may be the ultimate intention as to the 
position the plants are to occupy it is 
better to support them in this way at first. 
After potting keep, as usual with plants of 
similar description, the atmosphere a little 
closer for two or three weeks, until growth 
has fairly commenced, and as soon as the 
weather gets sufficiently warm syringe 
