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POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA ALBA. 
‘This variety resembles the species in every respect, 
saving that the color of the bracts is white, instead of 
searlet. Though not so showy eas the more highly 
colored form, it is yet well deserving a place for the 
pleasant contrast it affords. 
STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. 
AMHIS plant is a native of the Island of Madagascarand 
= was introduced to British gardens about fifty years 
ago. It soon attracted attention and became a favorite 
as a greenhouse climbing plant. The exquisite odor and 
snowy whiteness of its flowers, combined with their shape 
and size, render them great favorites with the ladies. It 
is not generally cultivated in the South, only occasionally 
a plant is to be met with. It is very much subjeet to an 
attack of the Mealy Bug, and to keep it in good health 
they must be sponged off as quick as they appear. The 
soil it succeeds best in is a mixture of good fibrous loan: 
and peat, with a little sand and decomposcd manure 
added. It is propagated by cuttings, and wili stand the 
Winter in the Guif States. For a climbling plant for a 
small greenhouse it has no equal, and should be more 
extensively grown. Itmay be grown in pots and trained 
‘on a trellis if desired, but it attains its finest state of per- 
fection when planted in the border in a greenhouse and 
the shoots trained to the rafters. 
PLUMBAGO. 
AMHIS is; about one of the best known plants in the 
= Southern gardens; every lady wants a Plumbago, 
just the same as she wants her Lemon Trefolium or Calla 
