GREENHOUSE FLO WEEING PLANTS. 3i 



raised, with a riclmess of colour and beauty wHch may soon 

 displace the older kinds, and furniish a good variety for selection 

 of this most useful, easily groim, and ornament.al class of green- 

 house plants. A few of the best varieties of I. miniatum 

 are Aurantiacum, Giganteum, Genei-al Gordon, Perfection 

 Splendens, and Superbum. They thrive well in a strong 

 rich turfy loam, with a third part of sand and leaf-mould 

 added. After the plants have attained to specimen size, 

 they should not be potted every year, but be top-dressed 

 with a rich mixture of soil and manure. They flower better 

 when pot-bound than when allowed too much root-room. They 

 should be kept in the warmest end of the greenhouse, and 

 be suppKed with weak liquid manure when in active growth. 

 The flowering may be forwarded, if required, by placing them 

 in a vinery or forcing-house, as they beai- heat and forcing 

 well. 



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The well-known and popular L. rona and its white variety 

 are magnificent evergreen climbing plants, and when trained 

 on a balloon trellis make splendid exhibition specimens. To 

 flower them well, they require a light airy position in the 

 house close to the glass, so as to thoroughly mature the wood, 

 for on this, to a great extent, depends the quantity and 

 quahty of the flowers It Ls a good plan to train the young 

 shoots on strings stretched along the house near the glass, 

 until they complete their growth and show flower, when they 

 should be brought down and regularly trained over the trellis, 

 arranging the flowers that they may all show on the out.side 

 of the specimen when they are fully expanded. The plants 

 should be potted in rough turfy peat and loam, with lumps of 

 white sandstone and charcoal, and a sprinkling of bone-meaL 

 The pots should be well drained, as the roots require an 

 abundance of water during the time of growth, and weak 

 liquid manure, given once a week, after the pots are filled with 

 roots, will greatly benefit the plants. 



