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flowers are white and inconspicuous. These plants require 

 the hot, moist, shady cUmate of an orchid house. They 

 should be potted in wide shallow pots, among turfy fragments 

 of peat, sphagnum moss, and potsherds, and grow most 

 vigorously if kept usually covered with a bell-glass, which 

 should, however, be tilted a little every day, to prevent their 

 being destroyed by accumulated damp. Increased by division. 

 A. setaceus has leaves of a very dark velvet green, marked 

 with a meshwork of gold-coloured netted veins. A. Lohhi has 

 leaves similar to A. setaceus, with the addition of a broad 

 stripe of gold colour down the centre, and is, perhaps, the 

 same as sometimes bears the name oi pictus No. 1. To these 

 may be added A. argenteus, A. Lowi, A. striatus, A. xantho- 

 phyllus — all grown for the beauty of their foliage. 



ANOMATHECA. [Iridace*.] Pretty half-hardy bulbous 

 perennials. Soil, light rich loam. Propagated readily by 

 seeds or by offsets. A. cruenta, planted out in a bed, makes 

 a pretty show, the bloom lasting till September. The seed 

 should be sown in wide-mouthed pots or seed-pans very 

 thinly, and if they come up too thick they must be thinned. 

 The next season they may be planted four or five in a pot, 

 and the following year they may be bedded out in spring, and 

 the bulbs either taken up in autumn, or protected against 

 frost. The bulbs will live through the winter at the foot of 

 a wall, and spring up early, producing a very pretty effect. 

 A. cruenta, flowers scarlet. A. juncea, flowers lilac. 



ANOPTERUS. [Escalloniaceae]. A greenhouse evergreen 

 shrub. Soil, sandy loam and peat. Propagated by cuttings 

 under a bell-glass in heat. 



ANTENNARIA. [Composite]. Small hardy and half- 

 hardy herbaceous perennials. The smaller kinds are suitable 

 for pot culture in a collection of alpines. Soil, sandy, loamy. 

 Propagated by division. The best are A. alpina, flowers 

 pink ; A. Carpatica, flowers pink ; A. plantaginea, flowers 

 white ; A. triplinervis, flowers white. 



ANTHOCERCIS. [Solanace®.] Greenhouse evergreen 

 shrubs. Soil, light loam and leaf-mould. Cuttings strike 

 freely in sand under a bell-glass, with a mild bottom heat. 

 After they are struck they should be potted in the smallest- 

 sized pots, and as soon as they begin to grow the tops must 



