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Gretuhouse and Stove Plants 



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new, as any attempt at shaking out the 

 roots would end in disaster. Give ordi- 

 nary stove treatment through the summer 

 in respect to heat, moisture, and shade, 

 \\^hich latter should not be used further 

 than to keep the leaves from scorching. 

 Syringe the plants freely daily until 

 autumn, when admit more air to solidify 

 the growth. Winter at GO" in the 

 night, -with 5° more by day ; give 

 larger pots in spring, and treat through 

 the summer as advised for the preceding 

 year. All subsequently required is to 

 continue the course so far indicated, giving 

 more root-i'oom until the plants are large 

 enough to turn out in a bed of well pre- 

 pared soil, or move into large tubs that 

 will hold sufficient material to support 

 them for some time, to assist which give 

 manure-water once a week through the 

 growing season. 



The following two species are both hand- 

 some : — 



C. macrocarpa (syn. : C. viacrophylla). 

 Has white flowers ; it l)looms in autumn. 

 A native of Peru. 



G. ornata. A yellow-flowered species 

 that blooms in autumn. From the 

 Caraccas. 



Insects. — Scale and mealy bug will 

 thrive apace on' these plants ; if the latter 

 is troublesome, syringe freely with in- 

 secticide. To remove scale, a hard brush 

 should be used to the old wood, sponging 

 the young growth and leaves. 



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This is a strong-growing, very handsome 

 evergreen greenhouse climber, bearing 

 white flowers in great profusion during 

 the spring months. It is from New Zea- 

 land, and is a very suitable plant for a 

 large house, where a considerable space has 

 to be covered, and where it has room to 

 develop itself sufficiently to exhibit its 

 natural character. , It is a free-rooting 

 subject, and requires to be planted out, as 

 no ordinary sized pot could contain enough 

 soil to support the growth which it makes ; 

 but in commencing with young plants it 

 is better to grow them on for a time in 

 pots, so as to get them well furnished with 

 roots before turning out into a prepared 

 liorder. 



This Clematis will strike from cuttings, 

 but much the best method of propagation 

 is grafting small bits of the shoots on 

 ])ieces of loot of any strong-growing kind ; 

 this should be carried out early in the 

 spring, keeping the grafted plants in a 

 warm, confined^ atmosphere until a union 

 is effected, and they have begun to make 



j^rowth, after which they must be gradually 

 inured to more light and air, and kept on 

 in a growing temperature until there is 

 enough solar heat to keep them growing 

 freely through the summer ; move them 

 into larger pots as these are required, 

 training the single shoot which each young 

 plant should have to a stick. Keep through 

 the autumn and winter in an ordinary 

 greenhouse ; in April move into pots 3 or 

 4 inches larger, stop23ing the points of the 

 shoots. The plant grows well in a mixture 

 of half peat and loam, with a moderate 

 quantity of sand added to it. For this, as 

 foi' other free-rooting things, it is well not 

 to make the soil too fine ; break the turfy 

 pieces into bits the size of walnuts, and 

 mix the sand well with it. After potting 

 insert in the pots several tall sticks, rouncl 

 these twine the shoots, which should be 

 confined to from one to three in number, 

 so that the plants may be induced to make 

 considerable progress during the season. 

 When potted place them in an ordinary 

 greenhouse, and encourage growth by the 

 usual means of damping the atmospliere in 

 bright weather, and shutting up early witli 

 sun-heat, as also syringing ireelj^ overhead. 

 Beyond this nothing will be required 

 through the growing season except keep- 

 ing the shoots regularly trained round the 

 sticks. If this is not attended to they get 

 entangled in a way that renders it difficult 

 afterwards to separate them. As autumn 

 approaches give more air, and discontinue 

 the use of the syringe. Winter the plants in 

 the usual greenhouse temj)erature of about 

 40° in the night. Warmer than this they 

 should not be kept, or they will be in- 

 duced to make growth through that which 

 ought to be a season of complete rest pre- 

 vious to planting out. This will be un- 

 derstood from the plant being indigenous 

 to a country where the winters are cool. 

 Prepare the border in which they are to 

 be jalanted by efficient drainage, well- 

 secured from the soil getting down into it 

 by a layer of fibrous material, than which 

 for a strong-growing subject of this descrip- 

 tion there is nothing better than a thin, 

 turfy sod of about an inch in thickness 

 that has lain together sufficiently long for 

 the grass to have become decayed. This, 

 if put on the turfy side downwards, will 

 for years exclude the finer particles of soil 

 from getting down into the drainage, 

 which is better for being some 6 inches in 

 depth. Previous to planting out this and 

 all other climbers, especially in green- 

 houses and conservatories, care should be 

 taken that they are perfectly free from any 

 of the worse kinds of insects, srich as scale 

 or mealy bug, for, if plants to occupy a 



