THE PIMELEA. 107 



The Leschenaultia [Goodeniacece). 



This New Holland plant is named after Leschenault, 

 a Frenchman. It is a tribe of the most beautiful dwarf 

 recumbent plants we possess. To obtain well-grown 

 specimens of a healthy, symmetrical character, begin 

 with young plants. They will strike freely from cut- 

 tings of the young growth iuserted in pots filled with, 

 fine sandy peat, put under a large bell-glass, and set in 

 some shady part of the propagating-house or greenhouse 

 during the summer months. Pot the young plants off 

 as soon as they arc fairly rooted, using small pots at 

 first, and stop the points of every shoot as soon as 

 they are an inch or two long. Continue to do this as 

 they advance, and by shifting them from one pot to 

 the next size up to 8-inch pots, using good sandy peat, 

 fine symmetrical specimens, fit for any first-class con- 

 servatory or floral exhibition, will be the result. These 

 are comparatively easy to grow in any good ordinary 

 greenhouse, and no one possessing such a house should 

 be without Leschenaultias, for there can be no plants 

 possessing better characteristics than they do for hand- 

 some, Heath-like foliage, and which cover the pots as 

 well as the plants themselves with flowers of scarlet, 

 blue, or yellow. Formosa is a perfect gem. 



The Pimelea (Thymelaceiv). 



The Pimeleas are a well-known genus of choice 

 greenhouse dwarf shrubs, with white, pink, or blush- 

 coloured waxy heads of flowers. They are evergreen, 

 very free to flower, and not at all difficult to grow. 

 For cut flowers no better class can be grown, as the 

 plants will bear cutting to any extent without the least 

 disadvantage to them. On the contrary, cutting all 

 the flowers off, with a good bit of the plant, will 

 improve the habit of it by keeping it back, as the 

 flowers are rather disposed to run to the extremities 

 and the plant to get deficient in foliage below. 1 J . 

 Spectabilis is as good as any, and should be in every 



