90 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



being discovered or raised by a person of that name, the 

 "i" being attached; yet the greatest difficulty connected 

 with raising this variety is its disposition to damp 

 off when the plants get 7 or 8 inches high. Whole 

 batches will drop off by this disease in spite of all you 

 can do. The others are not liable to this failing. The 

 seed should be sown in the spring, in pots filled with 

 sandy peat and maiden loam ; cover the seed half an 

 inch with soil, and set in a brisk heat. 



Cuttings will strike freely in sandy peat during the 

 summer if covered with a bell-glass. Use a bell-glass 

 large enough to cover pot and all, plunging the pot in 

 a tan-bed or in sawdust or cocoa-nut fibre, over a mild 

 sweet heat over a tank. Short side-shoots are best to 

 strike. The plants are very liable to red spider : 

 when this is secD, at once give them a syringing with 

 a clean solution of some insecticide. 



The Loasa (Loasacece). 



This is a genus but little known or seen, yet it 

 possesses a class of splendid dwarf climbers for the 

 greenhouse. Loasa Aurantiaca is scarcely ever without 

 flowers, which are of an orange colour and of a peculiar 

 and handsome form. They may be raised from seed 

 annually, or propagated by cuttings of the stiff young 

 wood during the summer. Sow the seed in March, in 

 pots or seed-pans filled with leaf-mould and maiden 

 loam and some sand, and set the pans or pots containing 

 the seed in a mild heat until it is up, when air must be 

 given, and, finally, set the seedlings in a greenhouse or 

 pit. Pot them off, as soon as thejr can be well handled, 

 into small pots first, and soon shift them into 5-inch 

 pots, and place a stick or trellis to them ; or one plant 

 may be planted against a pillar in the greenhouse. 



The Kennedya (Fabaccce). 



So called from the name of a man. This beautiful 

 tribe has various-coloured pea-shaped flowers. They 



