BOUVARDIA 



BOWIE A 



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treatment growth is rapid, and the plants require to 

 be frequently pinched back at the points in order to 

 induce sturdy, well-balanced specimens. If this pinch- 

 ing-back is neglected, the plants will become ill-bal- 

 anced and few flowers will be the result. The time of 

 flowering can be readily regulated by the time of the 

 last pinching back, and a succession of flowering plants 

 may be maintained practically throughout the whole 

 year. Amongst market-growers, the aim should be to 

 secure the bulk of the flowers in the winter period, for 

 which purpose very little pinching of the shoots should 

 be practised after September, and the plants should 

 then be allowed to grow on until the flowers appear. 

 When in flower, the plants should be removed to a 

 somewhat drier house, and they last much longer if 

 kept in a temperature of about 50° F. 



Many growers plant out strong healthy plants upon 

 benches imder glass, or in favored 

 situations outdoors. Under these 

 conditions growth is rapid, and if 

 carefully watered and attention is 

 jxiid to pinching-back the leading 

 growths, fine flowering specimens 

 are quickly secured. For the cut- 

 flower trade, this method has a 

 considerable advantage over pot 

 culture. All through the growing 

 period, it is absolutely essential 

 that the plants should never be 

 allowed to sulTer for the want of 

 water and, when well estabUshed, 

 they should be fed Uberally with 

 manure. 



Specimens planted out in the 

 open, should be Ufted with a good 

 ball in early autumn, potted up and 

 placed in a close shaded house until 

 the roots again become active. 

 These plants will furnish a large 

 supply of flowers during the winter 

 months. 



After the flowering period is over, 

 bouvardias should be kept some- 

 what cooler and drier at the roots 

 for a few weeks, after which they 

 should be cut back and started 

 again in heat and moisture. If kept 

 frequently syringed, they will soon 

 break freely and furnish a good 

 supply of cuttings. These are best 

 removed with a heel when about 

 2 inches long, and placed in 4- or 

 5-ineh pots in an open compost of 

 equal parts sand and peat or fine 

 leaf-mold, and placed in a moist 

 and close frame with a brisk bot- 

 tom heat. Roots are soon emitted, 

 when the plants should be potted up singly and moved 

 on into larger-sized pots as required. Most of the gar- 

 den varieties are also readily propagated from pieces 

 of the larger and thicker parts of the roots in spring. 

 These may be cut into lengths of about 2 inches and 

 planted the same as cuttings, leaving a small i)iece 

 exposed above the soil. .Adventitious shoots are soon 

 formed on these and soon make good serviceable plants. 



The numerous garden forms are all so distinct in 

 habit, shape and poise of the flowers from all the known 

 species, that it is difficult to identify any of them as 

 varieties of any one species. It is probable that they 

 are complex hybrids of B. Iriphylla, B. leianthn, H. 

 Cavanillesii, B. scabra and possibly B.flava, all of which 

 species are more or less villose and scentless. The 

 garden forms arc extremely handsome, and useful as 

 cut-flowers, for indoor decoration, also for button- 

 holes and for making up into ladies' sprays, wreaths 

 and so on. Other purposes for which they are largely 



grown, are the decoration of the greenhouse or conser- 

 vatory, and, in warm localities, as bedding plants A 

 selection of some of best varieties is given herewith: 



Alfred Neuner. Double, pure white fls. ; an old variety of great 

 merit; of good constitution. Bridal Wrcalh. White, free-flowering, 

 with large loose trusses; one of the best for cut-fls. Bridesmaid. 

 Double, pink fls., brigliter than Pre.sident Garfield. Brilliant. 

 Bright crimson, floriferous, and of easy cult. B. candidissima. 

 V^hite; an improvement on B. jasminoides. Dazzler. Rich scarlet; 

 free and compact-growing. B. elegans. Scarlet; large truss of loose 

 habit. B.fiavescens. Light yellow; distinct; bad habit. B. fiavesceiis 

 Jlore-pleno. Double form of last-named. Hogarth. Brilliant scarlet; 

 large truss; a well-known variety. Hogarth flore-pleno. Double, 

 scarlet. B. jasminoides. White; a free-flowering dwarf form, of 

 easy cult. King of the Scarlets. Light-scarlet; large truss of very 

 fine large fls. ; a new variety of great merit. Maiden^ s Blush. Light 

 rose ; floriferous. Mrs. Robert Green. A fine salmon-pink sport from 

 President Cleveland; distinct and beautiful. President Cleveland. 

 Brilliant scarlet, with crimson tube; the richest and best of its color, 

 floriferous and of easy cult. President Garfield. Double, pink; 

 floriferous; large truss. Priory Beauty. Delicate rose or deep pink; 

 one of the most beautiful; elegant hatjit; 

 medium and compact truss. Purity. White; 

 fragrant, free, large fls.; loose truss. Sajig 

 Lorraine. Bright vermilion-scarlet; double. 

 The Bride. White, tinted with pink; one of 

 the best for bouquets, etc. Thomas Meehan. 

 Double, bright scarlet, with pale rose-scar- 

 let tube; floriferous. Triomphe de Nancy. 

 Double bright orange-red; large truss; dis- 

 tinct. Victor Lemoine. Large, very double 

 fls.; brilliant scarlet. B. Vreelandii (B. 

 Davidisonii). Pure white; extremely flori- 

 ferous; a favorite variety in gardens, and 

 of very easy cult. Vulcan. .Scarlet; medium- 

 sized truss. White Bouquet. Pure white; 

 exceedingly dwarf and compact. 



C. p. Rafpill. 



BOWENIA (bears the name of 

 Sir Geo. F. Bowen, once Governor 

 of Queensland). Cf/cat/dce*. Zamia- 

 like plant, grown to some extent in 

 Florida and hardy in the central 

 part. 



Bowenia, a monotypic genus, dif- 

 fers from Macrozamia in foliage 

 characters and in the absence of a 

 point on the cone-scales; and from 

 Zamia largely in its bipinnate Ivs. 

 B. spectabilis, Hook. Trunk thick, 

 scarcely rising above ground, plant 

 glabrous: Ivs. 3-4 ft. long, loosely 

 bipinnate, each pinna or 1ft. 1 ft. 

 or more long, the 9-20 segms. ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, oblique or fal- 

 cate, acuminate: cones short-pedun- 

 cled, the sterile ones 1)2-2 in. long 

 and half as thick, the fertile ones 

 3-4 in. diam., and the scales ex- 

 panded between the seeds into a 

 broad and thick truncate apex. 

 Queensland, Austral. There is a var. 

 serrulata. B.M. 5398, 6008.— This 

 charming little cycad makes beauti- 

 ful climips, thriving well under lath houses in Fla., 

 when given proper shade, good supply of moisture and 

 soil rich in humus; the Ivs. are easily broken if the 

 plant is roughly handled. l_ jj_ g. 



BOWIEA (after .1. Bowie, collector for Kew). Ldli- 

 acese. A monotypic genus containing one of the most 

 curious plants in the vegetable kingdom, sometimes 

 grown under glass as an oddity, and as an illustration 

 to students of botany. 



A round, green bulb 4-5 in. thick throws up yearly a 

 verj- slender, twining fl.-st. 0-8 ft. high, with many com- 

 pound, forked, curving branches below, and numerous 

 small green fls. above. This branched fl.-stalk is green 

 and performs the function of the usually absent Ivs.; 

 somewhat asparagu.s-like. There are no Ivs. except 2 

 small, linear, erect scales at the apex of the bulb, which 

 ((uickly vanish. The Ivs. show its relation to Drimia 

 and Scilla. 



