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close to the old wood at the beginning of the year, the cut-off portions 

 being used for propagation. These should be inserted in small pots of 

 sandy peat or leaf- mould, and subjected to bottom heat. When these 

 are well-rooted and have started growth, they must be pinched back if 

 wanted to train up a trellis; but if desired for pillar or rafter training, 

 they should be grown on with a single stem, until they reach the height 

 at which it is better they should branch, and then pinch them back. 

 They will require re-potting each spring, when gi-owth has recommenced 

 after the annual cutting back. 



TABERNiEMON TANAS 



Natural Order Apocyxace.e. Genus labenuemontana 



Tabern.*:xMoxtana (named in honour of Dr. James T. Taberna^montanus, 

 a celebrated sixteenth - century botanist of Heidelberg). An extensive' 

 genus of stove evergreens (trees or shrubs) comprising about one 

 hundred and ten species. They have opposite, entire leaves, and white 

 or yellowish flowers of similar structure to those of the preceding four 

 genera, except that the salver-shaped corolla has no scales in the throat. 

 The species are natives of the Tropics, and include T. iitilis, the celebrated 

 Cow-tree of British Guiana, which exudes a considerable supply of sweet 

 white milk when tapped. 



TABERN.EMOXTAXA Barteri (Barter's). A shrub about 

 i feet high with pale branches, and oblong pointed leaves, 

 in unequal whorls. Flowers wliite ; sunnner. Introduced from Western 

 Tropical Africa, 1870. 



T. COROXARIA (garland). Adam's Apple. A shrub about 4 feet high, 

 with forking branches, and elliptic-oblong, opposite leaves. Flowers 

 white, smaller than the preceding species, fragrant at night: July. 

 Introduced from India, 1770. There is a xa^v. fiore pleno in cultivation 

 with double flowers. 



T. recurva (turned back). Shrub, 6 feet high. Leaves broad- 

 lance-shaped, 4 inches long. Flowers fragrant, yellow, in many-flowered, 

 spreading and recurved cymes, produced in the forks of the branches : 

 June. Introduced from Chittagong and Tenasserim, 1824, 



