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summer different from the treatment given 

 to greenhouse plants generally ; syringe 

 when the house is closed, and train the 

 shoots round the sticks as they require it ; 

 give more air in autumn, and winter at 

 about 45°. The plants ought to be turned 

 out in the spring, before growth has com- 

 menced, so that the disturbance of the 

 roots in opening them out to spread them 

 evenly in the border will not cause a check, 

 which would occur if planted after growth 

 had begun. If the roots are covered 3 or 

 4 inches deep it will be enough. Do not 

 give more water than will keep the soil in 

 a moderately moist state until growth has 

 made some jsrogress. The shoots should 

 at once be trained in the place they are to 

 occupy ; as to stopping tiiis will depend 

 upon the situation — if to cover a back wall 

 the shoots must be stopped sufficiently to 

 cause them to break enough to furnish the 

 whole from the bottom gradually upwards. 

 If this is not attended to in the first in- 

 stance it will cause trouble afterwards. If 

 the object is to furnish a portion of the 

 roof, it will be better to confine the plant 

 to one or two shoots until these have 

 reached the top of the upright glass, when 

 they must be stopped to induce them to 

 make as many growths as required. These 

 should be regularly trained in their places 

 until the whole is covered. The plants 

 will of course be subject to such treatment 

 as to air, heat, and atmospheric moisture 

 as may be required by the other occupants 

 of the house ; they need but little shade, 

 but they should all through the growing 

 season be regularly syringed overhead in 

 the afternoons during warm weather. 

 When the desired space is hlled the shoots 

 ought, each autumn after they have done 

 flowering, to be well cut back. Strong 

 vigorous growing plants such as these soon 

 exhaust the soil, to remedy which a few 

 inches should, in the spring, be removed 

 from the surface of the border and re- 

 placed with new, in addition to which 

 they ought to be regularly assisted with 

 manure-water. 



The undermentioned are all desirable 

 kinds : — 



T. Bucliananii. Scarlet. 



T. eriantha. Similar in colour to T. 

 mollissima. South America. 



T exoniensis. Brilliant rose, with violet 

 throat. A garden hybrid. 



T. insignis. Bright crimson, a strong 

 grower. 



T. manicata. Scarlet. 



T. mollissima. Eose colour. Bogota. 



T. tomentosa speciosa. Bright red. 



T. Van Volxemii. Crimson. New Grenada. 



Insects. — The constant use of the 

 syringe advised through the growing 

 season will keep down the smaller in- 

 sects, such as aphides, red spider, and 

 thrips ; if they get affected -wuth scale, or 

 mealy bug, there is no resource but the 

 use of sponge and brush during the grow- 

 ing season, and in the autumn, when 

 growth is complete, cutting close in, 

 loosening the plants from the wires, and 

 steeping them repeatedly in a strong solu- 

 tion of insecticide. 



TECOMA. 



These evergreen greenhouse plants are 

 nearly allied to Bignonias ; the climbing 

 kinds are well adapted for draping the 

 roofs of conservatories or greenhouses 

 Their method of propagation and the 

 general treatment are the same as recom- 

 mended for Bignonias, which see. 



The following are all fine kinds : — 



T. capensis (syn. : Bignonia capensis). 

 An orange-flowered species ; it blooms in 

 summer or autiunn. From the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



T. jasminoides. A species with pink 

 flowers ; a summer bloomer, from New 

 South Wales. 



T. jasviinoides alba magna, T. jasminoides 

 rosea, T. jasminoides splendens are hand- 

 some forms of T. jasminoides, differing 

 only in the colour of their flowers. 



TELOPEA SPECIOSISSIMA. 



This magnificent plant, the Waratah of 

 New South' Wales, is rarely seen, which in 

 some measure may be attributable to its 

 taking up considerable room. It also re- 

 quires to be grown where it will have a 

 temperature higher than that of an ordi- 

 nary greenhouse, but not so high as that 

 usually kept up in the stove ; beyond this, 

 to flower the plant a considerably drier 

 atmosphere is indispensable, not only in 

 the dormant season but also during' the 

 summer, otherwise the growth as it pro- 

 gresses is wanting in the solidity that is 

 essential to the production of bloom, and 

 which no amount of dry treatment through 

 the winter will make up for. The flowers 

 are produced on the extremities of the 

 shoots in the fbrm of compact, almost 

 globular heads (in outline not unlike an 

 incurved Chrysanthemum), some 4 inches 

 in diameter, and surrounde<l at the base 

 with a number of large lance-shaped bracts 

 coloured like those of a Poinsettia ; the 

 flower heads are scarlet, and, combined 

 with the bracts, have a most brilliant ap- 

 pearance, quite distinct from a lything else. 



