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winter water must be given with great care, tlie roots being 

 kept rather dry ; in summer, when the plants are growing 

 freely, water must be supplied in plenty. The best of the 

 pleromas for the warm greenhouse is P. sarmentosa, which 

 makes a nice specimen plant in a pot if trained to a wire 

 balloon. The flowers are of a fine violet colour, shading into 

 blue. 



TACSONIA EEIAIJTHA. 



Plumbago. — The fast growing blue-flowered P. capensis is a 

 good pillar plant and will supply useful flowers for bouquets. 

 Cuttings of young wood strike as freely as fuchsias. When 

 growing freely it should be frequently syringed. 



