ON THE TREATMEXT OF TEIVERANIA COCCINEA. 223 



acceptable for the hothouse or conseiTatory ; such being the fact, 

 and judging no plant compensates more for the attention given it 

 than the one in question, induces me to fonvard you my mode of 

 treatment with it, hoping the remarks will prove of use to some of 

 the very numerous readers of the Floricultural Cabinet. 



The Eranthemum elegans is tenncd a shrub or tree. It is a 

 native of the Phillippine Islands, and is very readily propagated 

 by cuttings, taken off at the second or third joint, during any of 

 the spring months, inserting them singly into 48-sized pots, 

 placing them in a hot-bed frame whose heat is from 70 to 80 de- 

 gi-ees ; the cuttings soon strike root, and may then be taken into 

 the hothdiise, and by giving them larger pots as they require 

 (which will be frequent), will make good plants by the time of 

 blooming. I grow them in a rich loamy soil. 



I take off the ends of the principal shoots until they have at- 

 tained the height of a foot opeighteen inches, in order to cause the 

 plants to become bushy, and to increase the quantity of blossoms. 

 I then place under each plant a feeder or pan, and keep them re- 

 gularly supplied with water until they have done flowering, when 

 the quantity is gradually reduced. The plants are then cut 

 down to three or four joints, and but little water given until the 

 young shoots begin to push in the spring, at which time a larger 

 pot is given. 



Under the above method of treatment I have had plants, in 12- 

 sized pots, tliree and four feet high, literally covered with 

 blossoms. 



The soil I use is composed of one half rich sandy loam, to one 

 half of peat earth ; the pots are well drained by using cinders. 



Sept. 8th, 1833. John Plant. 



ARTICLE lY.—On the Treatment of Triverania coc- 

 cinea. By Floralegus. 



The Triverania coccinea is a very handsome herbaceous stove 

 ])laiit, and merits a place in every collection. It is a native of 

 the Island of Jmnaica, West Indies. I have admired the plant 

 much, and cultivated it extensively, during the last ten years, and 



