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how much interesting greenhouse cultivation is to be had 

 out of growing several of the best Oxalises. Almost all are 

 natives of the Cape of Good Hope, which means easy 

 greenhouse cultivation, and winter or early spring flower- 

 ing. I shall certainly try to increase my stock, though 

 one very seldom sees any of them catalogued. 



Tradescantias, that I used to grow in pots for London, 

 I find equally useful here. The common green one is all 

 but hardy, and flourishes outside by the greenhouse wall. 

 This, picked and put into a flat glass, grows without roots 

 in the water in the most graceful manner for weeks to- 

 gether. A few bits of flower stuck in such as, for instance, 

 the Sparmatia africana, which continues to flower better 

 if constantly picked down to where the fresh buds are 

 forming and you have a lovely winter flower arrange- 

 ment at once : grace of form in the growing leaves, con- 

 trast in the starry white flowers, colour in the brilliant 

 yellow shot with red stamens. ' Munstead ' flower-glasses, 

 as designed by Miss Jekyll (very cheap, and all kinds of 

 useful shapes), are still to be got at Green & Nephews, 

 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.G. 



The variegated gold-coloured Tradescantia and T. 

 discolor are useful and pretty, and should never be allowed 

 to die out or get shabby. They grow so easily at every 

 joint that they are to greenhouses what certain weeds are 

 to gardens. 



Mr. Smee in his ' My Garden ' recommends Forenia 

 asiatica as a good stove plant. I have not yet got it, but 

 mean to do so. 



January 13/&. A tall greenhouse grass called 

 Cyperus laxus I find easy to grow. It is very pretty 

 picked in winter and stuck into a bottle behind some 

 short pieces of bright-coloured flowers. It looks refined, 

 and if against or near white paint or a white wall its 

 shadows are pretty, thrown by the lamp through the 



