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previous May), and require but 

 little attention until the leaves 

 begin to appear. Then water- 

 ing is attended to, and with 

 plenty of light, and a night 

 temperature of 45 to 50 F. 

 during the winter months, the 

 plants come into flower in due 

 course. The spikes may be 

 used as "cut", but pot plants 

 grown like Hyacinths, or hang- 

 ing baskets as shown in the 

 figure, would probably sell 

 better. 



Lantana. These showy 

 plants with Heliotrope - like 

 flowers are much used for bed- 

 ding-out purposes during the 

 summer months. They are 

 easily raised from cuttings in 

 spring, inserted in sandy soil 

 in a close frame, being after- 

 wards potted up and hardened 

 off by the end of May or early 

 June. They bloom with great 

 freedom, the flowers being of 

 various shades, such as pure- 

 white, deep-yellow, rose-pink, 

 orange - scarlet, purple - scarlet, 



reddish-crimson, and intermediate shades. Fancy names have been attached 

 to many of them, some of the best varieties being Diadem, delicatissim,a, 

 La Neige, Distinction, Rutilant, Ne Plus Ultra, &c. 



Lapageria. Lovely Chilian plants, remarkable for their long trailing 

 woody stems, smooth glossy -green ovate three -nerved leaves, and large 

 drooping bell-shaped flowers, which are bright rose in L. rosea and waxy 

 white in its variety alba. The plants are hardy in the mildest parts of 

 the kingdom, and have been noted in full bloom in Cornwall in the open 

 air at Christmas-time. A compost of turfy peat, to which some nodules 

 of charcoal and a fair amount of coarse sand and a little turfy loam are 

 added, suits the plants well. It must, however, be thoroughly well drained, 

 as the plants like plenty of moisture during growth. For market work 

 the white variety is more valuable than the red, and may be grown on 

 the walls or rafters of any greenhouse, or even in corridors between ranges 

 of glasshouses. Propagation is effected by layering the stems, as shown 

 in Vol. I., p. 81, fig. 72, afterwards severing each rooted portion with a 

 new shoot and potting it up separately. A little extra heat may be given 



Fig. 2S3.Lachenalia Nelsoni 



