92 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



are fine subjects for the warm conservatory, and others 

 form splendid objects on the roof of the hothouse ; 

 others being well adapted for suspension baskets 

 for the warm greenhouse and stove. The old Jloi/a 

 carnosa will do very well in the common greenhouse, or 

 even in a window ; I have grown it well in both places. 

 The flowers are of a remarkably waxy substance, and 

 last a long time, producing honey to such an extent 

 that it even drops clear from the flowers. The same 

 footstalks of the trusses produce flowers two or three 

 successive seasons ; therefore do not cut them off. The 

 propagation of this species is by cuttings of the sound 

 young growth — one or two buds or leaflets will grow 

 — either will do, or even a leaf will strike root. In- 

 sert either in pots of peat and maiden soil, and plunge 

 the pots in a moist heat of 60°. 



The Tacsonia (Passifloracece). 



This is a subdivision of the Passiflora tribe. The 

 genus are subjects of the warm greenhouse or hothouse. 

 In the cold counties the latter is safest for them, but in 

 the mild western counties they do well in common con- 

 servatories, where the} r may be seen displaying their 

 beautiful flowers suspended from the roofs of these 

 glass houses. 



Their propagation is by seed and by cuttings. • The 

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

 sandy peat, leaf-mould, and maiden loam of about equal 

 parts. 



For Cuttings : — Put a good drainage first, then fill 

 the pot up to the rim with the above soil. Insert the 

 cuttings (three or four) in a 3-inch pot, water, and 

 plunge it in a bottom heat of 55° or 60° ; when 

 struck, pot off at once, and grow them on a trellis, 

 or plant them in good peat and maiden loam against 

 pillars in the conservatory, and train them over 

 the roof. They may also be grown on globe open 

 wire trellises in pots so as to show the flowers in sus- 

 pension. 



