CHAPTER XVI 



GREENHOUSE AND STOVE BULBS 



Clivias Colocasias Crinums Cyclamens Cyrtanthuses 

 Eucharises and Urceocharis Eurycles 



CLIVIAS (syn. IMANTOPHYLLUM) 



THE Clivias and Imantophyllums were formerly kept 

 distinct, but are now combined by botanists, the name 

 Imantophyllum being retained as that of a sub-genus. 

 Both have long leaves in opposite rows and umbels of 

 flowers, which are of various shades of yellow, orange, 

 or scarlet. C. nobilis grows about a foot high, and has 

 bright red-yellow flowers. Gardneri has fewer flowers 

 (twelve to twenty in the umbel). Miniata is the only 

 species belonging to the sub-genus Imantophyllum, and 

 seedlings, or hybrids between it and the other species, 

 have been obtained in considerable numbers. The cata- 

 logues of leading bulb dealers may be consulted for the 

 varieties now in commerce. All are ornamental in pots 

 or planted out in beds or borders in airy houses, with a 

 temperature of from fifty to sixty degrees. In spring 

 and summer they should have plenty of water, both at 

 the roots and applied by means of the syringe. A rather 

 lower temperature and less water are desirable in 

 spring. They should have a soil composed of good 

 fibry loam and peat in the proportion of about three of 

 the former to one of the latter, with a little charcoal, 

 bone-meal, and silver sand. C. miniata flowers in spring 

 and summer, and the other species in winter and spring. 



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