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properly matured, otherwise few flowers can 

 be expected the following spring. A very 

 beautiful variety called limoniana has white 



Fuchsia in hanging baskets. 



bloom with lemon-coloured markings in the 

 centre. 



Gollinsia bicolor. Many readers will 

 know this plant as a deservedly popular 

 hardy annual for autumn or spring sowing. 

 It also makes a very attractive basket plant 

 for the greenhouse and veranda. To obtain 

 the plants in flower in the greenhouse in 

 April or May, sow the seeds in the baskets 

 in September and winter the plants in a 

 heated frame or greenhouse, or sow from 

 February to April, also in the baskets, for 

 summer and autumn flowering. The flowers 

 are lilac and white, the plants growing about 

 1 foot high. There is a white variety alba 

 or candidissima. The plants thrive in 

 ordinary light, sandy soil, and benefit by 

 weak applications of liquid manure. 



Gytisus. As basket plants for the porch 

 and veranda three of the hardy Brooms 

 claim attention : C. Beanii, with yellow 



blossoms ; C. Kewensis, creamy white ; and 

 C. andreanus pendulus, yellow with red- 

 brown blotches. They thrive in sandy loam, 

 and may be propagated 

 by cuttings of half- 

 ripened shoots taken 

 off with a heel of old 

 wood. Insert in sandy 

 soil in a cold frame in 

 September or October. 

 Place three to six plants 

 in a basket according 

 to their size. 



Epiphyllum trun- 

 catum. This is a 

 Avinter-flowering Bra- 

 zilian plant of consider- 

 able value for the 

 greenhouse. Naturally 

 of a drooping habit, 

 the plants when in 

 flower are even more 

 effective in baskets 

 than when cultivated 

 in pots. Cuttings of 

 Epiphyllum root read- 

 ily in spring under a 

 bell-glass without the 

 aid of bottom heat. 

 The most suitable soil 

 is turfy loam with a 

 little leaf-mould and 



old brick and mortar rubble intermixed. 

 April is the best time to make up the 

 baskets. At that season they need a 

 temperature of about 60 and should be 

 syringed on bright days, for it is then 

 that they form fresh growth. The follow- 

 ing is a useful selection of six sorts : 

 bicolor, rose and white ; coccineum, reddish 

 scarlet ; delicatum, soft pink ; salmoneum, 

 salmon red ; tricolor, reddish salmon and 

 purple ; violaceum, violet, white centre. 



Euonymus radicans. This is a useful 

 hardy evergreen for baskets hanging in 

 verandas and porches. Even prettier than 

 the green-leaved one is the variety variegata, 

 or tricolor, as it is sometimes called. 

 Ordinary loamy soil is suitable, and an 

 increased number of plants may be obtained 

 by cuttings made from the points of the 

 shoots, 3 to 4 inches long. Insert in sandy 

 soil in a cold frame in September. Should 



