44 STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



PEPEROniAS— Useful little plants with peltate leaves, finely marked 

 with bands of white between the principal veins. They grow best in a 

 warm greenhouse with shade. Peperomia Saundersii is grown either 

 for filling shallow pans, mixed with other plants, or as specimen plants 

 for the window. P. maculosa and P. marmorata are also well worth 

 growing. Propagation is effected at any time of the year by placing 

 entire leaves, with a piece of stem attached, edgewise in sand. 



PHYLLAGATHIS ROTUNDIFOLIA belongs to the same family as the 

 better known Sphoerogyne latifolia atid Cyanophyllum spectabile. It 

 somewhat resembles the former in gf>neral appearance. A few plants of 

 it were given a test last year, outside during the Summer, in a position 

 partly shaded from the sun. They behaved splendidly, and in a position 

 like the above, where the surface of the soil is covered with some low- 

 growing plant, such as Hydrocotyle or Lysimachia, to keep the sun 

 from the roots, it may become a valuable feature for outdoor decora- 

 tion. But for indoors, it may be used as a substitute for the more 

 gaudy-leaved Sphoerogyne, as it succeeds in an atmosphere where the 

 majority of greenhouse plants can be grown. Propagation for small 

 plants is by the leaf, the petiole of which is inserted in sand, the blade 

 lying flat on the surface and the ribs severed in several places. From 

 the cut parts nearest the petiole, numerous small growths are made; 

 these, when-an inch or so high, may be potted up. For making speci- 

 men plants quickly old subjects which have been encouraged to branch 

 may be cut up, and the pieces inserted in pots in bottom heat. They 

 send out roots very quickly. 



PHYLLANTHUS NIVOSUS and P. ATROPURPUREUS— These are hardly 

 suitable as florists' plants, but for public or private establishments they 

 should always be grown, as their foliage, in a young state especially, 

 is most beautifully colored even when grown in the open air during 

 Summer. In this latitude we plant them out along with other bedding 

 material; they are exceedingly effective. The old plants are cut back 

 severely in Autumn, potted and stored in a rather warm house. In 

 February cuttings of the medium thick wood are taken, and rooted in 

 strong heat. 



PHYLLOT/ENIUn LINDENII— This plant, which belongs to the Cala- 

 dium family, should be employed for decorative purposes more than is 

 the case at present; not only because the foliage differs from the small 

 number of kinds of plants used for decorative work, but mainly for the 

 reason that it will stand the rough treatment given to those plants 

 more so than one would expect. It is a stove plant and one of the most 

 ornamental. After a goodly number of leaves have been developed in a 

 warm, moist atmosphere the plants will continue to keep up a presenta- 

 ble appearance with ordinary greenhouse temperature, and they may 

 even be used as house plants. The leaves are shaped somewhat like 

 those of the fancy-leaved Caladiuraa; the texture is much firmer, the 

 color is green with white markings along the principal veins. Propaga- 

 tion is by division. Before repotting put the pieces in a warm sand bed 

 to encourage fresh roots. 



