THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



JULY, 1902 



Volume XXV 



Number 7 



BOUGANVILLEA GLABEA 



VAR. SANDERANA 



BY 



A. ALEXANDER 



PRESIDENT HAMILTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



THIS plant, which is shown as the 

 frontispiece to our magazine this 

 month, is creating quite a large 

 amount of interest among flower dealers in 

 many parts of our country because of the 

 ease with which it is cultivated, its great 

 beauty and long period of blooming, as well 

 as its lasting qualities when cut for table 

 decoration. 



When given liberty, by being planted out 

 in the bed of a conservatory, it will grow to 

 a length of twenty feet or more if desired, 

 and be covered with its beautiful masses of 

 rosy red bracts for at least six months of 

 the year. The plant from which the photo- 

 graph was taken began to bloom last 

 November, and is still covered with masses of 

 bloom. So persistent is it in flowering that 

 the stumps, left in cutting the graceful 

 wreaths of blossoms, break out afresh, and 

 are soon a rosy mass. 



It makes a fine pot-plant also, and a very 

 small one will bloom for a long time, and 

 on this account it is beginning to figure 

 largely among our Easter plants. 



It is named after Bouganville, a celebra- 

 ted French navigator who flourished at the 

 latter part of the i8th and beginning of the 

 19th centuries. It is common in the forests 

 Brazil and Argentina, as well as some parts 

 Southern Europe, where it is used to cover 

 the fronts of cottages. 



It is easily propagated by cuttings in sand. 



The plant referred to above is trained to 

 the centre pillar of the conservatory, then 

 right and left to the beam 15 feet in one di- 

 rection and 12 in the other, and from these 

 two arms hang down hundreds of slender 

 twigs covered with beautiful dark glossy 

 leaves and multitudes of flowers. I know 

 of no insect enemy infesting it, which is 

 much in its favor. It is altogether a most 

 desirable addition to make to a greenhouse 

 or conservatory, especially if it can be 

 planted in a bed. It is not at all particular 

 about what soil it grows in, and it is no un- 

 common thing for me to have to cut canes 

 of nearly 10 feet coming from the root in 

 very sandy soil. 



