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Apbil 12, 1906. 



BEGONIA FOR NAME. 



1 enclose a leaf of a begonia and 

 would thank you to let me know if it 

 is a leaf of Begonia Gloire de Sceaux? 



G. E. W. 



We do not think the leaf sent is Gloire 

 de Sceaux, for althougji we have not seen 

 a plant of this variety for some years, 

 it is described botanically as "leaves 

 thick, heavy, underside red," It looks 

 very much like incarnata, not one of its 

 improved forms, of which there are at 

 least two, but the old, original incar- 

 nata. It is not necessarily a species at 

 all, for the begonia family has been 

 crossed, not only between varieties and 

 species, but between sections, and many 

 new types have been produced and in- 

 numerable varieties, especially among 

 the shrubby or fibrous-rooted sections. 

 To this crossing we owe the introduction 

 of several of the finest things in the 

 genus, notably Gloire de Lorraine, which 

 came from B. Socotrana x Dregei. We 

 think the leaf sent is B, incarnata. 



W. S, 



A GOOD TABLE PLANT. 



Cissus discolor is acknowledged to be 

 one of the prettiest creepers available for 

 stove culture, and it is also sometimes 

 met with trained on a large balloon. But 

 I do not think many know, says a writer 

 in the Gardeners' Magazine, how pretty 

 a table plant it makes. When pruning 

 old specimens in February or March 

 some of the stouter wood should be 

 saved and made into cuttings a few 

 inches long. Each cutting should have 

 three eyes, one to be inserted under the 

 soil, and two to remain above it. These 

 cuttings should be placed, four together, 

 in a 3-inch pot at equal distances near 

 the edge and stood in a projpagating 

 case. Growths will soon start, eight in 

 all, from the eyes, and they should be 

 carefully retained. Before they become 

 unmanageably long, the specimen should 

 be shifted entire into 4-inch or 6-inch 

 pots. At this stage, ihree light bamboo 

 canes should be evenly split in halves, 

 and the ends so inserted in the pots as 

 to form a low balloon; or four stakes 

 may be arranged in the form of a pyra- 

 mid. In either case, the shoots should be 

 tied in to cover the sticks, and, if well 

 attended to, some excellent room or table 

 plants will be formed by August, and 

 they will last in beauty for many weeks. 



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