GreenlLouse and Stove FLants 



5troyed,and both the health and appearance 

 of the plants spoilt. 



ADHATODA CYDONIiEFOLIA. 



An evergreen stove species, the only re- 

 presentative of the genus often met with. 

 It is usually treated as a climber, though 

 it can be flowered in the ordinary bush- 

 trained form. The flowers are white and 

 purple, and are produced in autumn. 

 Though a distinct-looking plant, it is less 

 effective than many that will conform to 

 like treatment. It strikes readily from 

 cuttings of the young shoots in spring, 

 kept in a brisk heat, and when rooted potted 

 singly and grown in a moderate stove 

 temperature. If the intention is to use 

 the plants as climbers the shoots should 

 not be stopped, but if wanted to flower 

 in bush form, the points ought to be 

 pinched out as soon as they begin to grow 

 freely, using a few sticks for support after- 

 wards. It comes from BiaziL 



Insects.— Mealybug, and scale, as well 

 as the less injurious insects, aftect this 

 plant. To keep them down, syringe daily 

 during the growing season -nith water, and 

 dip in insecticide. 



ADIANTUM. 



A very extensive genus of Ferns, found 

 growing naturally over a great poition of 

 the globe, but mostly avoiding cold or very 

 hot regions. They comprise both stove 

 and greenhouse species, and are particu- 

 larly handsome, many of them being 

 esjjecial favourites with cultivators. 



For projjagation and cultivation, see 

 Ferns, general details of culture. 



STOVE SPECIES. 



A. amabile. Peru. 



A. Bausei. Of garden origin. 



A. brasiliense. Brazil. 



A. cardiochlcena. Tropical America. 



A. caudatum. East Indies. 



A. concinnum latum. West Indies. 



A. cultratum. Brazil. 



A. curvatum. Brazil. 



A. decorum. Peru. 



A. Edgworthii. India. 



A. farleyensc. Barbadoes. 



A. Feei. Mexico, 



A. Henslovianum. Peru. 



A. Kanlfassii. 



A. Lathomii. A garden variety. 



A. lunulatmn. East Indies. 



A. macrophyllum. West Indies. 



A. peruvianum,. Peru. 



A. Sanda Catharince. Brazil. 



A. scutum. 



A. Secmannii. Central America. 



A. tenerum. Jamaica. 



A. trapcziforme. West Indies. 



A. Veitchii. Peru. 



A. velutinum. Colombia. 



A. Wilesiamim. Jamaica, 



GREEXHOUSE SPECIES. 



A. chilense. Chili. 



A. cuneatum: Brazil. 



A. excisum multifidum. 



A. fonnosum. Australia. 



A. gracillimum. Of garden origin. 



A. Iiispidulum. New Holland. 



A. Lausonii. 



A. Luddemanianum. 



A. palmatum. Peru. 



A. reniforme. The Azores. 



A. tinduia. Peru. 



A. Williaiiisii. Peru. 



^CHMEA. 



Amongst the large number of Biome- 

 liaceous stove plants in cultivation there 

 are several iEclimeas that occupy a very 

 high position, as well for the varied beauty 

 of their flowers as for the graceful vase-like 

 form of the plants, produced by the peculiar 

 elegant curvature of the leaves. From the 

 many desirable properties which they 

 possess, it would be difficult to imagine 

 any plants more worthy of general culti- 

 vation. They are easily grown, and their 

 moderate size makes them suitable both 

 for the largest establishments and for jilaces 

 where the space devoted to plant-growing 

 is limited. The difterent species tiower at 

 dift'erent times in the year, thus aft'ording 

 a welcome succession in their bloomings. 

 Some last in beauty for several weeks ; 

 others, like the handsome medium-sized 

 ^chmea fulgens and M. discolor, with 

 their intensely red flower spikes, remain 

 very attractive objects for months after the 

 actual flowers are gone, their appearance 

 being such as to recpiire close examination 

 to determine whether the blooms are closed 

 or yet to open. Several of the species are 

 of a partially epiphytal nature, growing 

 in the shady forest between the forked 

 branches of trees, sustained in part by the 

 decayed vegetable matter lodged there, 

 and probably in some cases extending their 

 roots down the trunks to the ground, 

 wheie they will obtain additional nutri- 

 ment. From this it will be easily under- 

 stood that the roots of these plants do not 

 like to enter soil that is of a close adhesive 

 nature, requiiing it to be the opposite — 

 loose, fibrous, ancl open— although there is 

 some difl'erence in the ability of the 

 dift'erent species to exist in soil of a nature 



