230 GKEENHOUSE PLANTS. 



B. Oriana. — In appearance this resembles B. lajbrida, but 

 it is rather more compact in habit. It is a lovely object 

 when grown into a good specimen, with its large trusses of 

 rich scarlet flowers and pink tubes. 



B. President Garfield. — Another new double variety, with 

 pink flowers, very distinct and pretty ; will form a nice 

 companion for Alfred Neuner. It is of American origin. 



B. Rosalinda. — A variety of good habit, producing dense 

 trusses of large rich salmon-coloured flowers ; a very desir- 

 able plant. 



B. Vreelandii. — This is a very fine variety of this useful 

 family. It is a free grower and profuse bloomer ; the leaves 

 are ovate, dark green in colour, and the flowers are lai'ge and 

 pure white, produced in dense trusses. It blooms in autumn 

 and mid winter. A garden variety, also known by the name 

 of B. Davidsonii. 



Bhugmansia. 



How very seldom we now see in our conservatories the 

 fine old plants which constitute this genus ! Yet they have 

 a noble appearance, when laden with their large pendulous 

 trnmpet-shaped flowers ; and they are of very easy culture, 

 succeeding best in a mixture of good fibrous peat and rich 

 loam, in equal parts, to which should be added a little well- 

 decomposed manure and some silver sand. In growing 

 them from a young state, it is best to keep the laterals 

 picked out, confining them to a single stem for about four 

 or five feet, after which they should be encouraged to form 

 heads. About the middle of March the plants will begin 

 to show signs of starting ; they should then be taken out of 

 their pots or tubs, and have some of the old soil removed, 

 and then be repotted into the compost already recommended. 

 As they advance into free growth, water should be given 



