IN MY LADY'S GARDEN 



Neuner (white), and President Garfield (pink), all of which 

 are good. 



The larger-flowered bouvardias ( Jasminoides longiflora and 

 Humbolti corymbiflora) are not so easy to grow as the rest, 

 but are also very beautiful when well managed. 



Bouvardias are easily propagated by root cuttings, and 

 this method of propagation is preferable to that of ordinary 

 cuttings or slips of the new growth in spring, as the young 

 plants are quite free from scale or other blight which may 

 have attacked the parent plant. After flowering, bouvardias 

 should be kept rather cool and drier than usual for a few 

 weeks, after which they can be cut back, leaving only two or 

 three eyes of the new wood at each point. They must then 

 be placed in moist warmth to form new growths, but will 

 not require much water at the root until this appears, when 

 the plants can be repotted, shaking away all the old soil, and 

 pruning the roots by cutting away some of the older and 

 more woody parts of them. These woody roots, when cut 

 into pieces an inch or two in length, form root cuttings, and 

 can be induced to throw up shoots by planting them 2 inches 

 apart (their tips just showing above the soil) in a shallow 

 box or pan of light compost of peat, leaf-mould, and sandy 

 loam in equal quantities, with a liberal dusting of charcoal. 

 The box should then be plunged to the rim in a hot-bed, 

 keeping it moist, and covering it partly with glass, though 

 some air must always be admitted. The little plants grow 

 quickly, and can be potted on several times during the 

 summer, when they will blossom towards the autumn. The 

 points of their growths must be pinched off a week before each 

 shift, to make them bushy ; and they should spend the early 

 autumn, from June onwards, in a cool frame, being thoroughly 

 syringed daily, as well as supplied with water. Each time 

 they are potted on they may receive a slight addition to the 

 richness of their soil, old hot-bed material (in a dry state, 

 free from insects) and soot in small quantities being suitable 

 for this purpose. At the end of September they should be 

 taken into a warm greenhouse (still syringing them con- 

 stantly), where they should not stand directly over the hot- 



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