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noticeable in other plants. Two tiny seed leaves are produced shortly 

 after sowing the seed, and after a while one of these seed leaves dies the 

 other continuing to elongate. In some of the species, notably one 

 name S. Wendlandi, this seed leaf, which at first is about the eiz^ of a 

 pin head, expands till it gets about 18 inches long and a foot broad. 



STROBILANTHES ANISOPHYLLUS and S. ISOPHYLLUS are very neat 

 and useful Winter blooming plants for the warm greenhouse. Flowers 

 are light purple. Cuttings should be taken in early Spring. Plant out 

 for the Summer, lifting and potting end of September. 



SYNADENIUn QRANTII is a very compact-growing euphorbiaceous 

 plant, with bright green foliage, bearing no flowers in a small state; 

 and those which come on mature plants do not have much to recom- 

 mend them. This is one of the easiest plants to root. By merely stick- 

 ing pieces about 8 inches in length in the soil about the end of May, they 

 take root quickly, making a good display for the balance of the season. 



STEPHANOPHYSUM (RUELLIA) LONGIFLORUM For conservatory 

 decoration this is a most useful plant during the dull months, small-sized 

 subjects being covered with bright red flowers. The ease with which 

 flowering plants may be had by the end of the year is remarkable. Cut- 

 tings are put in the usual time that soft-wooded bedding plants are 

 propagated; they root in a few days, after which they are put in 3-inch 

 pots! Three of the plants may then be put in a 6-inch pot, and by keep- 

 ing them in a growing temperature they may be had in full flower two 

 months after the cuttings are taken. It is not only useful as a Winter 

 blooming plant but it comes in well for planting out in Spring, bloom- 

 ing satisfactorily during the Summer. 



TINNEA >ETHIOPICA A shrubby greenhouse plant sometimes called 

 the Tree Violet, owing to its flowers having the same fragrance as the 

 violet. It is propagated from good-sized cuttings of the dormant wood. 



TOXICOPHL^EA SPECTABILIS A Spring blooming stove shrub. 

 Flowers are pure white, borne in dense clusters. Should be treated 

 similarly to the Ixoras. 



