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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
TACSONIA, 
make growth, so as to get them established 
in the new soil. Some flowers will be pro- 
duced through the early summer months, 
and the plants, when well managed, gene- 
rally yield a second full crop about July or 
August, after which they may have the 
shoots slightly shortened again, which will 
have the effect of keeping them close and 
bushy. By the end of September they may 
be gradually induced to a state of rest, as 
in the preceding season. The subsequent 
treatment will require to be such as before 
advised, giving a little more root-room as 
required, Weak manure-water once or 
twice a week will be beneficial. After 
they have got into pots as large as are 
deemed requisite, the plants will last for 
years if each alternate summer after bloom- 
ing the upper portion of the ball of soil is 
reduced, and replaced with new. _ If they 
get too tall they may be cut back freely 
after flowering, and as soon as new growth 
has commenced they should be partially 
shaken out, returned to the same or a size 
smaller pots, and encouraged to make 
growth as when younger. 
T. coronaria is a single-flowered form of 
the above, differing little from the double 
kind except in the number of petals, and 
requiring similar treatment in every way. 
Kast India. 
Insects.—Tabernzemontanas are liable 
to the attacks of mealy bug and scale. 
When these make their appearance means 
should be taken to extirpate them, for if 
present at all the continual cleaning re- 
quired to keep them down often injures 
the leaves, and causes the flower-buds to 
fall off. 
TACSONIA. 
These splendid evergreen greenhouse 
climbing plants are very nearly allied to 
Passifloras, and are among the very finest 
flowering subjects we possess for draping 
the roofs of greenhouses and cool conserva- 
tories. They are of vigorous habit, and 
grow rapidly, covering a large space in 
little time, and are particularly adapted 
for large houses or heated glazed corridors, 
where there is plenty of room for the de- 
velopment of their numerous pendent 
shoots, which, clothed with the immense 
number of finely-coloured flowers they 
produce, are, thus drooping, seen in the 
best position. It is not advisable to 
plant them in small houses, as in such 
they almost smother everything grown 
under them, or else have to be so con- 
tinuously kept cut in that their bloom- 
ing capabilities cannot be seen to advan- 
tage. The roof should be lofty, so that 
properties. 
plants are to be grown should be propor- 
there will be a considerable space inter- 
vening betwixt the extremities of their 
hanging shoots and the heads of the plants 
that stand on the stages or floor of the 
house, otherwise the drooping growths have 
a confused appearance, and the flowers are 
not so effective. 
Tacsonias are not at all adapted for 
growing in pots in the ordinary trained 
specimen style, their habit being too free 
to be kept within such bounds; but where 
the roof or wall space which they are in- 
tended to cover is insufficient to give scope 
for the full development of the plants, if 
allowed, proportionately, too much root- 
room, they may be grown in a large pot or 
box. 
less space without further resort to the 
knife than is consistent with the produc- 
tion of bloom in sufficient quantities. 
In this way they can be confined to 
The different greenhouse species most 
worthy of cultivation bloom continuously 
for a considerable period through the 
summer 
flowers are somewhat scarce; they are 
very useful for cutting to decorate large 
stands, or entwined round the stem of a 
vase ; when so arranged, or hanging down 
over the sides, they have an elegant and 
pleasing appearance that cannot be pro- 
duced except by the use of things similar 
in habit. 
in which to grow them, and it should be 
of a good mellow nature, containing plenty 
and autumn, when indoor 
Loam is the most suitable soil 
of fibre, for on this will depend its lasting 
The border in which the 
tionate in extent to the space they are in- 
tended to cover. 
Most of the varieties can be increased 
from seeds and by cuttings which should 
consist of young shoots, such as produced in 
spring from branches that have been cut 
back ; these ought to be taken off witha . 
heel as soon as they have grown to alength 
of about 4 or 5 inches, and put singly in 
3-inch pots, drained and half filled with 
a mixture of loam and sand, the surface 
wholly sand ; kept close, moist, and shaded, 
in an intermediate heat, they will form 
roots, when-give more air. Stand them 
during the summer on a moist bottom, 
syringe each afternoon when the house is 
shut up, and give a little shade in the day; 
in this way they will grow so as to require 
pots 3 inches larger in July. Winter ina 
temperature of 45° or 50°, and about March 
move them into 8 or 9 inch pots ; use the 
soil moderately fine with some sand added, 
and put to each plant three or four sticks. 
round which to train the shoots. A 
slightly closer atmosphere than that of a 
ereenhouse will be all that is required this 
