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long. The flowers are bright scarlet, and produced in 

 clusters of from eight to twelve in the axils of the leaves. A 

 very effective stove plant, blooming through June and July. 

 Native of Java. 



Allamanda. 



A splendid family of Apocynaceous plants, invaluable for 

 the decoration of plant stoves and for exhibition purposes. 

 All the species are yellow flowered, so far as we are aware, 

 except A. violacca. They are comparatively easy to grow, 

 and when properly managed, will continue to give a suc- 

 cession of their bright-coloured flowers for five or six months. 

 If allowed to make long growths, they will require a trellis, 

 the most desirable being that of a balloon shapfe ; but the 

 best system of growing these plants is to prune hard back 

 in the spring, just before the buds start, after which the 

 young shoots should be pinched back once or twice, to 

 induce them to throw out laterals, and thus to make a 

 bushy plant. When treated in this manner a few stakes 

 only will be necessary, to give them uniformity and sym- 

 metry in shape and appearance. The soil should be com- 

 posed of equal parts fibrous loam, peat, leaf mould, and 

 silver sand, with the addition of a little well-decayed manure. 

 When potted, the plants should be placed in a temperature 

 ranging from 65° to 75°, and as near the glass as possible, 

 and they must be treated liberally with water from the 

 syringe until October, when it must be gradually withheld. 

 In spring they will want repotting, and to be again treated 

 in the same way, when they will soon throw out blooming 

 laterals. If required to bloom early, they must be started 

 in the beginning of the month of January. All the species 

 may be increased by cuttings ; but A. grandiflora is much 



