62 GREEN.HOUSE REPOTTING. [MARCH. 



winter, or early in spring. The flowers of those be- 

 longing to the Green-house are of a yellow or straw 

 colour ; the most of those that are red or purple, with 

 the celebrated medicinal species, belong to the Hot- 

 house, for which see May. There are some of 

 the species very subject to the white scaly insect, 

 which must be attended to, that they may not get to 

 any extent. 



Agapanthus, three species. They are all blue flowers. 

 A. umbellatus is very celebrated, and well known in. the 

 collections of the country. There is a variegated va- 

 riety of it highly desirable, the foliage being white 

 striped, and frequently the flower stem and the flower 

 are as good as the species. They have very strong 

 roots, and require plenty of freedom. Plants are 

 always large before they flower, and when the pots, 

 by frequent shifting, become inconvenient, the plant 

 should be divested of all the earth, and, if too large, 

 divide it, cutting off the strongest of the fibres ; then 

 they will admit of being put into smaller pots. If the 

 above operation is performed in August or September, 

 it will not retard their flowering, which, when well 

 grown, is very handsome, the flower stem arising about 

 three feet, and crowned with twenty or thirty brilliant 

 blue blossoms, continuing to bloom successively, r 



Alonsbas, five species, all soft wooded, small, shrubby 

 plants, with scarlet flowers. Jl. incisifblia is known 

 amongst us under the name of Hemimeris urticifolia, 

 and A. linearis as H. linearis. If well treated, they form 

 very handsome plants, and flower freely. They will 

 not bear strong fumigation; and, when the house is 



