102 GREEN-HOUSEREPOTTING. [MARCH. 



heat is then applied, and the steam of the boiling water 

 a.cting upon the contents of the net, elevates the cam- 

 phire into the capital, where it concretes on the straws, 

 with which this part of the apparatus is lined. They 

 are all fine* evergreens, (which the name denotes,) and 

 easily cultivated, 



' Liwms,: Ftex, two or three species are very fine, 

 and flower freely. L. trigynum has large yellow 

 flowers in clusters, and L. ascyrifdliwn, whose flowers 

 are large, blue, and white, and in long spikes. The 

 shape of them is very like the flower vulgarly called 

 Morning-glory. 



Lobelias. Several of them, when well treated, form 

 most magnificent flowering plants ; they are principally 

 herbaceous. L. Tiipa has the largest foliage, and fine 

 scarlet flowers. L. speciosa, flowers light purple; L. 

 fulgens, crimson flowers ; L. splendens, scarlet flowers. 

 The three last are of the same habit; the colours bril- 

 liant; and to grow them well, they should be divided, 

 (if there are several shoots arising,) when they begin 

 to grow, putting them first into four inch pots, and 

 shifting them frequently, having them to flower in 

 those of nine or ten inches, which will be about the 

 end of June,, or first of July, and they will continue 

 until October. The pots must be always kept in pans 

 or saucers filled with water; likewise give 'plenty to 

 the surface of the earth, which is to be done during 

 their time of growth and flowering. If this is attended 

 to, they will produce flower stalks from four to six feet 

 in height, and covered with branches and spikes of 

 flowers from bottom to top. The corolla is pentape- 



