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grower well knows is very liable to the attacks of the white bug, and we 

 may term it almost a bug-breeder. Its large orange-colored blossoms, com- 

 bined with a long continuation of bloom, renders it highly attractive and 

 beautiful. It is not so much cultivated as it deserves; it ought to be in 

 every collection of stove plants. 



Cuttings from the young wood will strike freely in sand, and the pot 

 plunged to the rim, where there is bottom heat at about seventy degrees ; 

 give but little water, as the cuttings are very apt to damp off. Plants 

 struck the early part of summer, will make fine flowering specimens the 

 following season. A cutting of 1851 was potted last May, into a twelve- 

 inch pot, using leaf-mould and loam, in equal portions with one-fourth silver 

 sand. In this compost it grew vigorously ; and being trained to a trellis, 

 by the end of July the trellis was completely furnished with young wood, at 

 which time it began to produce flowers at the extremities, and had a suc- 

 cession of bloom for four months from each shoot. Similar to the Oleander, 

 during the period of growth and flowering, it requires water daily, and 

 sometimes twice, according to the temperature of the atmosphere. A little 

 liquid manure, applied occasionally, greatly promotes the size of its fine 

 funnel-shaped bloom, which are from three to four inches in diameter. Dur- 

 ing winter, it has but little water — just enough to preserve life, and to give 

 it a season of rest. 



Early in March, the side shoots are pruned into one eye, and the plant 

 disrooted and repotted into the same sized pot, then plunged in bottom heat 

 until the roots are fairJy established. Plants managed in this way will last 

 for many years, in the same sized pots and trellises, and are brought into a 

 flowering state much earlier than they are when planted in a conserva- 

 tory border, as the roots require to be contracted, in order to have them 

 bloom at an early stage of growth. It grows freely in compost of equal 

 parts of one year old turfy loam, sandy peat, and well-rotted cowdung, with 

 leaf-mould. — {FloricnUurcd Cabinet.) 



Veronica Andersoni. — Early in spring I purchased a small plant, and 

 as it is a quick grower, I repotted into one twelve inches across, in a com- 

 post of equal parts of fresh loam, leaf-mould, and old rotten cowdung, with 

 a sprinkling of bits of charcoal. I placed in a pit-frame till May, and then 

 plunged it up to the rim in the ground in the open garden, where it was 

 duly attended to with water and training. It remained there till the end of 

 September, and then removed into the greenhouse. The plant is erect, four 

 feet high, with side branches from the bottom to the very top, except the 

 last part of the principal leading shoot. Each side shoot has a terminal 

 flowering spike of from three to six inches long, in all fifly-two spikes- 

 The flowers vary in color according to age, being pale blue, rose, and white* 

 It is one of the most ornamental plants for autumn decoration of a green- 

 house, conservatory, entrance-hall, or sitting-room. Small plants, too, I nnd 

 bloom very abundantly. It is a cheap plant, easy to cultivate, and readily 

 increased by cuttings. It is an hybrid raised between Veronica speciosa 

 and Veronica salicifolia. — [Id.) 



