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instructions, I name only some of those which I 

 consider as most worthy of your attention. What 

 I shall say in regard to their culture will be a suf- 

 ficient guide to you, should you desire to admit 

 into their society others that require the same 

 temperature. 



Gesneriaceae. 



The double window can also lodge, very much 

 at their ease, plants of the order Gesneriacece,* of 

 the three genera, Gesneria, Gloxinia, an&Achimenes. 

 I have already had occasion to remark with what 

 perfect docility a leaf, or a mere fragment of a 

 leaf, from a plant of this last named genus will 

 take root when we wish to propagate it by 

 slips. 



The gloxinias are not less accommodating : 

 their foliage resembles the most beautiful green 

 velvet, and their flowers, in the form of a goblet, 

 have in the inside a large spot, which is always of 

 a different shade from the flower itself. The ges- 

 neriacese require a great deal of water and of 

 heat ; they must be watered several times a day, 



* Order Gesneriacese, consisting of tropical herbs, with green 

 foliage and showy flowers. Gray's Botanical Text Book, 



