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Greenhouse and Stove Plants 



James Salter. Lilac. 



Madame C. Andiguier. Rosy lilac. 



Madame Godillot. Brownish led. 



Madame B. Bendatler. Yellow, shaded 

 rose. 



Mademoiselle Anna Delaux. Milky 

 white, tinted rose. 



Meg Merrilies. Sulphur white. 



Eob Boij. Reddish purple and amber. 



Wizard. Reddish maroon. 



EARLY FLOWERING POMPONES. 



Bois Duval (syn. : Scarlet Gem). 

 Maroon red. 



Chrome Stella. Yellow. 



Earhj Casse. Lilac lose. 



Fred Pele. Reddish crimson and gold. 



Golden Madame Damage. Golden 

 yellow. 



Hendersonii. Yellow. 



Illustration. Light pink and orange. 



Le Luxemburg. Bronze yellow. 



Madame Desgrange. White, centre 

 yellow. 



Nanum. Blush. 



St. Croutts. White, pink tipped. 



St. Mary. White. 



Insects. — Aphides are often trouble- 

 some, and as soon as the plants are found 

 to be affected they should be fumigated, or 

 dipped in tobacco water. The leaves are 

 also sometimes attacked by a grub which 

 affects them in the same way as the larva 

 of the celery fly, getting between the upper 

 and lower cuticles of the leaves ; directly 

 this pest is seen it must be crushed with 

 the fingers or it quickly spoils the plants. 

 If mildew is troublesome dust with flowers 

 of sulphur. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM FRUTESCENS. 



These, the Marguerites of the French 

 flower markets, are pretty free-blooming 

 plants. Their flowers are well adapted for 

 vaiious purposes in a cut state, and the 

 plants are equally so for the decoration of 

 greenhouses. Their propagation and after 

 growth is of the easiest possible description; 

 cuttings made of the points of the soft 

 young shoots will strike at any time of the 

 year in a week or two in warmth ; if put 

 in about the end of February in sand, 

 and kept close and moist in a temperature 

 of 60° they will strike in ten days. As soon 

 as they are well rooted move singly into 

 3-inch pots, pinch out the points of the 

 shoots, and keep them in a temperature 

 similar to that in which they were struck ; 

 give air according to the state of the 

 weather, with a little shade when the sun 

 becomes powerful. In a month or six 

 weeks they will need more loum. They 



will flower in 6 or 7 inch pots if required, 

 or, if larger specimens are wanted, they 

 may be at once put in 8 or 9 inch pots ; if 

 to be grown large, the shoots should again 

 be stopped. By midsummer they will have 

 grown to a handsome size, ancl will keep 

 on blooming continuously all on through 

 the autumn and winter if kept in a tem- 

 perature of about 45° or 50°. They will 

 grow in any kind of soil, peat, or loam, 

 with some rotten manure and sand added. 

 They do well struck in spring, planted 

 out in the open ground about the end of 

 May, and lifted and potted towards the 

 beginning of September ; so treated fine 

 specimens for winter blooming can be de- 

 pended on. 



There are many forms of both the white 

 and the yellow varieties, nothing more 

 than differences in the seedlings. It is 

 best to get a free-flowering, compact- 

 habited variety of each colour, and propa- 

 gate successional stock each year to take 

 the place of the old ones to be discarded 

 after flowering. 



Insects.— Aphides are the only insects 

 that afl'ect these plants so as to give much 

 trouble ; for these fumigate. 



CIBOTIUM. 



A magnificent genus of Ferns, most of 

 which are Tree species that will thrive in 

 a greenhouse temperature, but are better 

 with the atmosphere kept a little closer 

 and more humid during the growing 

 season than that of a greenhouse. C. 

 Barometz has creeping stems, and if planted 

 out will cover a large space with its stately 

 fronds, the texture of which is such that 

 they will last in good condition for a very 

 long time ; few Ferns will keep fresh so 

 long in water when cut. It comes from 

 China. 



For propagation and cultivation, see 

 Ferns, general details of culture. 



greenhouse 

 C. Barometz. China. 

 C. jyruinatum. Sandwich Islands 

 C. regale. Mexico. 

 C. Schiedei. Mexico. 

 C. spedabile. Mexico. 



CINERARIA. 



In times jiast the raising of new varieties 

 of this useful greenhouse plant was con- 

 fined to a few individuals, ancl propagation 

 by suckers was the usual course adoj^ted by 

 the generality of cultivators. But in 

 recent years so much improvement has 

 been made in Cinerarias, that they may be 

 had good enough for all purposes i'rom seed 



