TELOPEA, 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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summer different from the treatment given 
to greenhouse plants generally ; syringe 
when the house is closed, and train the 
shoots round the sticks as they require it ; 
give more air in autumn, and winter at 
about 45°. The plants ought to be turned 
out in the spring, before growth has com- 
menced, so that the disturbance of the 
roots in opening them out to spread them 
evenly in the border will not cause a check, 
which would occur if planted after growth 
had begun. If the roots are covered 3 or 
4 inches deep it will be enough. Do not 
give more water than will keep the soil in 
a moderately moist state until growth has 
made some progress. The shoots should 
at once be trained in the place they are to 
occupy ; as to stopping this will depend 
upon the situation—if to cover a back wall 
the shoots must be stopped sufficiently to 
cause them to break enough to furnish the 
whole from the bottom gradually upwards. 
If this is not attended to in the first in- 
stance it will cause trouble afterwards. If 
the object is to furnish a portion of the 
roof, it will be better to confine the plant 
to one or two shoots until these have 
reached the top of the upright glass, when 
they must be stopped to induce them to 
make as many growths as required. These 
should be regularly trained in their places 
until the whole is covered. The plants 
will of course be subject to such treatment 
as to air, heat, and atmospheric moisture 
as may be required by the other occupants 
of the house ; they need but little shade, 
but they should all through the growing 
season be regularly syringed overhead in 
the afternoons during warm weather. 
When the desired space is filled the shoots 
ought, each autumn after they have done 
flowering, to be well cut back. Strong 
vigorous growing plants such as these soon 
exhaust the soil, to remedy which a few 
inches should, in the spring, be removed 
from the surface of the border and re- 
placed with new, in addition to which 
they ought to be regularly assisted with 
manure-water. 
The undermentioned are all desirable 
kinds :— 
T. Buchananwi. Scarlet. 
T. eriantha. Similar in colour to T. 
mollissima. South America. 
T econiensis. Brilliant rose, with violet 
throat. A garden hybrid. 
T. insignis. Bright crimson, a strong 
grower. 
T. manicata. 
T. mollissima. Rose colour. Bogota. 
T. tomentosa speciosa. Bright red. 
T. Van Volxemii. Crimson. New Grenada. 
Scarlet. 
Insects. — The constant use of the 
syringe advised through the growing 
season will keep down the smaller in- 
sects, such as aphides, red spider, and 
thrips ; if they get affected with scale, or 
mealy bug, there is no resource but the 
use of sponge and brush during the grow- 
ing season, and in the autumn, when 
growth is complete, cutting close in, 
loosening the plants from the wires, and 
steeping them repeatedly in a strong solu- 
tion of insecticide. 
TECOMA. 
These evergreen greenhouse plants are 
nearly allied to Bignonias ; the climbing 
kinds are well adapted for draping the 
roofs of conservatories or greenhouses. 
Their method of propagation and the 
general treatment are the same as recom- 
mended for Bignonias, which see. 
The following are all fine kinds :— 
T. capensis (syn.: Bignonia capensis). 
An orange-flowered species ; it blooms in 
summer or autumn. From the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
T. jasminoides. A species with pink 
flowers ; a summer bloomer, from New 
South Wales. 
T. jasminoides alba magna, T. jasminoides 
rosea, T. jasminoides splendens are hand- 
some forms of T. jasminoides, differing 
only in the colour of their flowers. 
TELOPEA SPECIOSISSIMA. 
This magnificent plant, the Waratah of 
New South Wales, is rarely seen, which in 
some measure may be attributable to its 
taking up considerable room. It also re- 
quires to be grown where it will have a 
temperature higher than that of an ordi- 
nary greenhouse, but not so high as that 
usually kept up in the stove; beyond this, 
to flower the plant a considerably drier 
atmosphere is indispensable, not only in 
the dormant season but also during the 
summer, otherwise the growth as it pro- 
gresses is wanting in the solidity that is 
essential to the production of bloom, and 
which no amount of dry treatment through 
the winter will make up for. The flowers 
are produced on the extremities of the 
shoots in the form of compact, almost 
globular heads (in outline not unlike an 
incurved Chrysanthemum), some 4 inches 
in diameter, and surrounded at the base 
with a number of large lance-shaped bracts 
coloured like those of a Poinsettia; the 
flower heads are scarlet, and, combined 
with the bracts, have a most brilliant ap- 
pearance, quite distinct from anything else. 
