100 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



plants, more deserving of general cultivation than the 

 Ohorozemas. They are capable of assuming, by timely 

 stopping, a beautiful, compact, symmetrical form, 

 specially suited for exhibition, being of a robust, stiff 

 character, and carrying a multitude of handsome pea- 

 shaped flowers, which are, as a rule, orange and red, 

 3*ellow and red, or scarlet and yellow ; nor can any 

 plant be matched with these as cut flowers. 



They should be grown in peat soil, with sand, and 

 one part fibrous loam. The species is propagated by 

 seed and by cuttings. 



By Seed. — Sow the seed, which is small, on the 

 surface of seed-pans filled with sandy fine peat and 

 sifted maiden loam of equal parts. First insure a good 

 drainage with crocks, then put a good layer of sittings 

 over these; fill the pans up to within half an inch of 

 the rim, and press the soil firmly in, so as to make a 

 smooth surface, and then sow the seed evenly over it, 



Fig. 25. — The dewpot, or irrigator. This utensil is one of the most 

 useful implements a garden can possess for watering beds and pans 

 containing fine seeds, and the foliage of plants. The jet, a, is full 

 of holes as small as a needle point, so that the water emitted from 

 them is as fine as the smallest rain, like dew; b, an opening to 

 admit of pouring in water to fill the pot. The implement should 

 be made of good light copper or zinc, but the jet should be of copper 

 or brass. 



covering it one- eighth of an inch with fine soil, and 

 set the pan in a warm pit or frame or propagating- 

 house. Lay a square of flat glass over the pan till the 

 seed is up, when air must be freely admitted to the 

 young seedlings. Give tepid water sparingly with 

 the "dewpot," or a very fine rose water-pot ; let the 

 glass remain off for an hour or two to dry the young 

 plants, and remove it altogether as soon as the seedlings 



