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now a grand display of Gesneras, consisting of Q. exoniensis, G. 

 zehrina splendens, and G. refidgens. Tor single plants for the 

 dinner- table, and for vases, we put one corm in a small sixty, and, 

 when well started, shift it into a five-inch pot. For specimens we 

 put five corms in a five-inch pot, and transfer them when the young 

 plants are about three inches high into nine-inch pots. The corms 

 are started about the middle of April, to insure the plants flowering 

 in November and December. The varieties of Epiphyllum truncatum 

 are most effective, whether in the form of small plants for the 

 dinner-table, or large specimens. They can be grown on for many 

 years, without having to renew the stock by propagation. The main 

 point is, as soon as they have made their new growth, to place them 

 in a sunny position, and keep dry at the roots. They should be 

 taken into the stove about the end of October, and then be watered 

 liberally. 



In addition to the above, I grow a few other good things ; but 

 I have thought it better to enumerate a few of the best only. It 

 will be seen that, with a greenhouse and a small stove, there need 

 be no diflBculty in having an abundance of flowers during the next 

 two months. I have omitted all mention of the Camellias, for every 

 one knows tbey may be had in perfection during the winter. And 

 I have said nothing about Orchids, for I have only a few of them ; 

 but I have seen some in the houses of friends which are so good, 

 that I shall look them up before long. 



THE AMOEPHOPHALLUS RIVIEEI. 



ET M. AUGUSTE KIVIKRE, 



Gardener-in- Chief at the Luxembourg, and Director of the Garden at Hamma, 



Algeria. 



[ARLT in the year 1S59, I received some seeds from 

 Cochin-China, amongst which were found a couple of 

 small stray bulbs. Their origin leading me to suppose 

 that they would require heat, I placed them in a stove- 

 house, where they grew, increased in size, and un- 

 folded their spathes. They proved to be arads. They remained 

 three years in this state. 



When my plants had multiplied sufficiently, desiring to know 

 something more about them, I removed a few specimens into the 

 temperate-house ; under this treatment they took a larger growth, 

 and acquired a more lasting vegetation. Not wishing to stop short 

 at this point, I soon afterwards removed others into open beds, out 

 of doors. Here the growth experienced a check, but the plants 

 were not destroyed. Growing more slowly, they became more 

 robust and longer-lived, and soon they acquired their maximum 

 development. The conns became doubled in size, and put out a 

 number of small offsets, which enabled me to propagate the species 

 on a large scale. 



