278 GREEN-HOUSE CAPE BTTLBS. {May. 



the colours are brilliant and of every shade ; yellow and 

 white are most prevalent. Each species continues a con- 

 siderable time in flower. The flowers are either solitary, 

 axillary, extra-axillary, but most frequently terminal ; leaves 

 mostly opposite, thick, or succulent, and of various forms. 

 They are sometimes kept in the hot-house, but undoubt- 

 edly the green-house is the best situation for them. They 

 must not get water above twice a month during winter, but 

 while they are in flower, and through the summer, they 

 require a more liberal supply, and they seldom need to be 

 repotted ; once a year is sufficient. (Soil No. 18.) 



CAMELLIAS. 



These plants, when they are brought from the green- 

 house, (which should be about the end of June,) ought to 

 be set in a situation by themselves, that they may be the 

 more strictly attended to in watering and syringing. An 

 airy situation, where the sun has little effect upon them, is 

 the best. They should be syringed every evening when 

 there has been no rain through the day. After heavy 

 rains examine the pots, and where water is found, turn the 

 plant on its side for a few hours to let the water pass off, 

 and then examine the draining in the bottom of the pots, 

 which must be defective. 



CAPE BULBS. 



As soon as these are done flowering, and the foliage 

 begins to decay, cease watering, and turn the pots on their 

 sides, until the soil is perfectly dry; then take out the 

 bulbs, and preserve them dry until the time of planting, 

 which will be about the end of August or first of Sep- 

 tember. 



