LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FIG. 



1. Plant (left) recently moved from larger pot ; another (right) 



lifted from the ground ; and a third (centre) which has been 

 grown in the same pot for some time - - - 3 



2. Plant kept too dry, the soil shrunk away from the pot - - 5 



3. Watering a Hanging Basket by plunging it in a tub of water - 6 



4. Potting Bench .--.... 8 



5. Portion of Epidermis of Leaf (highly magnified), showing two 



stomata open and one closed - - • - " ^3 



6. The nearer the light, the dwarfer the plants - - - ^9 



7. Oil Stove with outlet for fumes - - - - - 21 



8. Frozen Richardia suspended upside down so that when it thaws 



the leaf stalks may stiffen straight - - - - 22 



9. Examining the roots of a Fern, infested with the root-feeding 



mealy bug - - - - - - - 23 



10. Parasitic Fungus growing through one of the stomata in a leaf 



(greatly enlarged) - - - - - - 25 



11. Pot of Soil prepared for fine seeds - - - - 28 



12. Pot containing Seed sunk in a larger one partly filled with moss, 



which can easily be kept moist - - - - 29 



13. When pots in a window are thus protected from the direct rays 



of the sun, the roots are less liable to be injured - -31 



14. Anthericum liliastrum — a plantlet layered in a pot - - 34 



15. Three Campanulas: C. isophylla (in Hanging Basket); 



C. pyraniidalis (left) ; and C. carpatica (right) - - 37 



16. Chrysanthemum frutescens cut down to induce young shoots to 



grow from the base. A shoot prepared as a cutting - - 39 



17. Primula sinensis, soil heaped round the base to induce the plant 



to form rooted offsets - - - - - - 42 



18. Spirtea in a saucer which can be kept full of water - - 45 



19. Flowers of Correa - - - - - '53 



20. Deutzia removed from pot, some of the old soil being worked 



away with a pointed stick - - - - '55 



21. Young Fuchsia, to be stopped as shown, or even lower, to make 



it bushy - - - - - - -56 



22. Flowers of Hydrangea : panicidata (above), H. hortensis in a 



pot (below) ------- 58 



23. Nerium Oleander, flowers and shoot prepared as a cutting - 60 



24. Pelargonium Leaves: (i) show or fancy; (2) zonal; (3) ivy- 



leaved ; and (4) scented-leaved - - - - 61 



25. Philadelphus, commonly called Syringa (top) ; the real Syringa, 



commonly called the Lilac (bottom) - - - - 64 



26. Three Anemones : A. coronaria (top) ; A. hepatica (right) ; and 



A. blanda (bottom) - - - - - - 67 



27. Flowers of Rouvardia, also shoot growing up from the base after 



the plant has been cut down - - - - - 69 



