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Be sure the pots are well drained, and never keep the 

 plants very wet. The colors are red, rosy, lilac, white, 

 striped, and mottled, with fringed and plain edges. 



SOLANUM. 



The only plant of this useful family, suitable for room 

 decoration on account of its flowers, is the Solanum jas- 

 minoides, a pretty climber, with dark green foliage, and 

 white potato-like flowers, in large clusters. 



It is useful to climb around a window or to cover a trellis. 

 It is a rampant grower, subject to no disease or insect 

 attacks, and with sun and air, if potted in a soil of rich 

 loam, will take care of itself, and bloom all winter. 



SOLANUM PSEUDOCAPSICUM. 



This plant is the common Jerusalem Cherry. It was 

 introduced from Maderia about the year 1596. For a 

 showy plant, in the parlor or green-house, it has no equal, 

 being studded with bright, red berries, about the size of a 

 cherry, during the whole winter. A plant now before us, 

 only two years old, is two feet high, three feet through, and 

 bending down beneath the weight of fruit. The flowers 

 are produce^ in June, and are inconspicuous. Sow the 



