44 ON PASSIFLORAS. 
room window) will be naked and bare for three months at least. Can 
this be avoided by late pruning? ‘The P. onychina has been in flower 
several weeks, and still is. 
2. A Begonia fuchsioides has been flowering for some months, but is 
now looking sickly, the leaves turning vellow. What should be the 
treatment ? 
3. A Beaufortia decussata and an Epacris heteronema will not flower 
with us, what can be the cause? The Epacris autumnalis has been in 
flower for weeks, and still is in profusion. 
4. The average heat of the greenhouse is from 45° to 55°. Is the 
temperature high enough to flower the following Passiflora—Ker- 
mesina princeps, racemosa, ccerulea, and edulis,—and will they all bear 
fruit ? 
[1. Being in a greenhouse at the temperature stated, it will not be 
likely to be excited to grow before the beginning of April, that period 
will be early enough to prune and dress it, and it will then be quickly 
re-furnished. 
2. The Begonia having been long in bloom, probably the pot is 
very compactly filled with roots, and requires to be re-potted into a 
larger to promote a fresh growth. The greenhouse at the temperature 
stated is too cold for its flourishing in winter (now December 21st), and 
it will in consequence assume a yellow hue. Take the plant into a 
stove, &e., after re-potting, and it will soon grow and flower again, 
If there be not the stove convenience, &c., let the plant have a period 
of rest, giving very little water fur the next two months. 
3. Beaufortia should be grown vigorously, for in proportion to that 
will be its bloom. Grown weakly it must not be expected to flower. 
It flourishes in a compost of equal portions of loam, sandy peat, and 
leaf mould, a good-sized pot and liberal drainage. It is very handsome 
when ornamented with its fine scarlet flowers. If the plant of Epacris 
be healthy it blooms as freely as others. They flourish in a very sandy 
turfy peat, in a chopped rough (not sifted) state, and free drainage. 
These are essential to produce a vigorous growth and fine bloom. 
Just before turning the plants out of doors in spring let them be 
shifted into fresh pots and soil, otherwise the roots being so fine and 
delicate the hot sun against the pots is apt to destroy the points and 
causes the plant to be sickly, and sometimes destroys it altogether. 
4. The four Passifloras will not do as well as in a stove, but in the 
greenhouse they must be kept in the warmest part, and by judicious 
management in that particular they will bloom freely from July to 
October. P. edulis will not do there as well as the others. All the 
species of Passiflora will produce seed if impregnated, and of course a 
fruit, but the kinds which are considered the eatable ones are, P. edulis, 
incarnata, laurifolia, and quadrangularis or granadilla. These require 
to be cultivated in the stove. All Passifloras grow freely in equal 
parts of loam, sandy peat, and leaf mould, in a rough state.] 
