118 stove plants. 



Gloriosa. 



A beautiful family of stove climbers, some species of which 

 will indeed succeed in a greenhouse, and all in an inter- 

 mediate house, after they have been started into growth in 

 the stove. They are exceedingly showy plants, and are easily 

 managed. The soil best adapted for them is a mixture of 

 fibrous peat, light loam, good leaf mould, well-decomposed 

 manure, and silver sand in equal parts. After potting they 

 will not, if the soU is in good order, require water until they 

 show their growth ; after this a good moist heat is necessary, 

 and care must be taken to keep red spider and thrips from 

 them. Weak liquid manure applied occasionally will be 

 found to assist them very much, and they must be trained 

 up the rafters, or upon a trellis, as they grow, or the tendrils 

 with which each leaf is furnished at the apex will become so 

 firmly fixed to other plants, that it will be impossible to 

 remove them without injury. After flowering, and when the 

 bulbs are quite mature, which will be ascertained by the 

 foliage dying off entirely, the pots should be stored away in 

 a cool dry place, and the tubers allowed to rest until they 

 are required the following season. The name Methonica is 

 preferred to Gloriosa by some plant-growers. These plants 

 are usually increased by division of the roots, but as seed 

 can be procured by artificial impregnation, young plants may 

 also be obtained in this way. 



G, grandiflora. — This is a strong-growing kind, with large 

 BessUe leaves, furnished at the apex with a long tendril into 

 which the leaf is lengthened out, and which is so characteristic 

 of this genus. The flowers are six-petaled, and measure 

 upwards of eight inches in diameter ; the petals somewhat 

 narrow, and lanceolate in shape, and pure sulphur yellow. 

 It is a free bloomer, and very distinct from the other species. 



