LIE 
NovEMBER 28, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
679 
era he has established that it 
bat ee desing life of the leaf, but that the 
pam f carbonic seid exhaled being comparatively 
n = = again reduced by 
onths of September 
slight ‘reduction tak paria in pee 
of carbonaceous matter 
uch as Lythru ee itam 
u a Polyg m sing i ne ic 
er ie leaves jenene but Tittle chlatophgll 
and possessing to a very small degree the power o 
decom carbonic acid, the true process of respi- 
ration, ora TE vigorously, 
In conclusion, M. Cor rena is states the chief 
result of his Daw vatioas, "ats 
for a bager apns the latter ae principally of 
pan 
TL ae a on 
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a 
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is too 
and decomposed 
by the opiy in the pria a assimilation or 
digestion, 
1 GREENHOUSE PLANTS.—XVIII. 
_ THEIR CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
Howas,—These beautiful oe flowered plants are 
natives: of New Holland, are 
region that are 
ually cultivated as pot plan The Hovea 
Celsi, which is = ae moa particularly here to be 
is of the t beautiful coloured 
ght 
plants e possess ; a blossoms are bri 
n ad produced -T from ithe axils of 
the leaves of the precedi season e 
ts foliag 
e distinct, rendering it a 
growing in an 7. collection of 
ving prete ing com- 
er of novelties that wht 
s -< o centu ary he ve beet introduced 
; for the time putting many Seevink 
: hea the background, but which must ultimately 
Regain former favour through sh 
wing the plant up for a specimen of 
ceo bush- bike shape, two distinct methods 
"ay be followed. 4 x ill allude first to the more 
Steral way of tr 
ln selecting mam re this method more care 
S "essary than with most things to secure such 
been sto not mor or 
l pon above the od » for it is a most deter- 
is int eet grower, and if it een allo 
habit § to run hizh before stopping, the 
is hard to co ppose young 
epee = off any ay ienis they may be in 
early as they are large enough z w 
soon as they. show Spo of growth 
in half or 2 
a shift of an inch and 
slow habit of ie will 
large pot. It will grow in either good 
be loam o peat—I prefer the latter, where 
had S in a 
rent: out the points of the shoots to cause them to 
the end of April, when the d 
of rh sun asi ins to 3 m eig It Preah ing influence 
, draw the syri 
over them and damp the material on bole they stand 
r 
ill rob th rest, Itisnecess e more careful i 
this matter with this plant than with most others, for its 
slow peapa of poa = alee admit o n- 
siderable amount of w away. Its leaves, 
eos little by evapora- 
o shade even in hot 
ad others of similar 
rhen growing with Gica which doi want shade, 
not injured by it unless sat ge is applied 
and closing in 
sun-heat, with a damp night a ei until the end 
of August, wh ir ma 
gust, when e given, and t 
plants prepared for winter. As will be seen, no seco 
i ing the season is recommended for it, its 
slo i 
uc 
Anita again, 
to be g 
not require eat so shen support in this wen most 
ees nts—and draw the weaker shoots into the places 
In the spring they will make nice 
and when peed Pico im 
tvatory o 
show. house, where the caus ths pe dadie ads 
which the EPT, 
ee sion 
them here have a = front position, where das will 
not be too muc da he beauty 
of their flowers is over, remove them k to their 
growing quarters ; stop and pot as in the preceding 
seasons, giving again a siach shift—m an whi 
this plant venti requires 
The future treatment each 
succe imilar, so far advi 
an to overpot or pot at 
withou ut stopping, letting it assu me its ral form, 
which will be to run ate a consi iderable height b before it 
branches much. 
soil, and other 
Its tr 
matters ani 
atment inr Sete ee a A pei 
: trained, nr justa omc stic 
. It may also wit 
ludigi the winter and spring, the object being to get 
as possible in little time, with sem 
of roots, and, when it is grown into such, to h 
eans best corrected. 
ading down m should Me done about 
the beginning of March), place the plant in an sort 
mediate-house temperature, near the li ght. Do 
BIYE snore 3 
St Uver tw 
draw the over the sia on the aa of 
days. srg or from a stool of this descri 
will be much more rapid than eng ro a young plan 
When the shoots have pushed 9 inches, aR 
they will have done by the middle of June, train 
them out, the strongest “4 the outside, and pinch out 
the points, so as to induce them to branch and form 
a compac wt “The ‘leit, unless it has 
been somewhat pot-bound, w il not require a shift 
until the spring following, which it should receive as 
rly in n as it signs of growth ; it is 
better to take out the flowers, and treat as before 
hrough the summer in stopping, training, air, an 
water. If well, by autumn it will have 
ade growth 18 inches in length from the base, strong 
a ushy ; harden up h ission of more air 
after the middle of st, and tie ri a few thin 
sticks, With proper attention as to water and repot- 
ting, when such is a pri a so meer will last 
and keep improving for 
The natural disposition a this Hovea to up 
for a considerable height with a single stem wies it 
it well ad imited space as a con- 
servatory 00 a In cases where it 
is so employed, it should befrom the seed-pan or - 
training i a esired shape. “St shows to the bet 
advantage when allowed to grow comparatively loose ; 
in this way it will bloom profusely and ripen quantities 
of seed, which will, Syet its scarcity, be of consider- 
has 
able e value. rida never plant 
can fo ag of its beauty and the size 
it will “attain, So ve Ho 
ts 
summ pon 
nacht the white species, consequently they should 
n wed to come in contact with any plant 
affected with this worst of insects. In -wooded 
plants the brown scale can os ary royed by washing 
i mpleted, and before 
the bloom is prominent, with ' n F owler’s Insecticide,” 
5 oz. to the gallon, 
ungens is pA opener to the above, 
very ‘slender i in gin not so large a grower, 
and is not fit for any purpose 
sized bushy specimen, for w is w pted 
—its colour, also deep bluish purple, harmonisi 
well ate most of other inhabitants of the hard- men | 
MATICO. 
VERY interestin goea and even instructive 
written upon a Perhaps the falsity of 
he oft-quoted insinuation of ‘the immortal bard,” 
that there is nothing in a name, is in no instance more 
apparent that when viewed in connection with adver- 
ising. In such a light it is not too much to say that 
there is everything “in a n i forget 
the excitement, nin itive 
terious Ozokerit ” looked for ?—the many 
and most speculations (all of which were 
wrong) meaning, and the learned dissertations 
upon its pronunciation ? **Opoponax” was 
enough, but in mystery ‘* Ozokerit ” far sur 
So ese names, 
general” are clear eno ough ponax, 
for instance, was etre intelligible to a 
botanist, who knew at once that under that name 
esigna- 
any botanists sak of the 
then may not 
any particular species came be 
yet the title is one well Brn. 
we should scarcel it 
gran is now the case ‘in 
essrs, we must not indicate 
is i as 
know how 
so ame And 
nised i y conspi 
TEET 
them more pon where 
rin 
el 
g “‘rapid and extraordinary cure of severe, 
recent, yd c ale isease,”’ be 
> always e ere all other medicines hav 
failed.” In this advertisement it is called “ vegetable 
—surely an unnecessary 
ualification, or is 
aang Matico of which no one 
but 
— ard ? 
As to what ‘plant is the ‘real original” Matico 
there seems som oubt. There are e t ‘tw 
ichards in the eld,” and, each has som 
title, hin 20 
e e h 
rms a shrub 3 to nes high, which is is common in tha 
higher parts of the Quitinian Andes, where its proe 
perties were some years back by a soldier 
ed Mateo, better known under his cat i 
Matico (little Matthew), who, being 
action, nn ger ka erypeny ae the leaves of some prea to 
his wound, w had the immediate effect of as asm 
honour of the 
t is ris Ak ee of the 
mba I 
