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pleasant and very powerful perfume, two or three being sufficient 

 to scent the whole house. Grow in peat, loam, and sand. 

 After flowering, cut back the tops of all the shoots, and place 

 in the cool pit. Propagate by cuttings of the young, half- 

 ripened shoots in June, strike in the cool pit or with very slight 

 bottom-heat, grow in the cool pit during summer and winter, 

 and place in the warm pit in early spring. Flowering period, 

 May and June. Sorts : B. megastigma (very sweet scented) 

 (Fig. 471), B. pinriata, B. serrulata (scented), B. tetrandra, and 

 B. heterophylla. 



Bouvardias are very useful and well-known plants for autumn 

 and early winter blossoms. Propagate by cuttings taken from old 



Fig. 472. — Bouvardia Alfred Neuner. 



cut-back plants in March ; pot on as they grow till July, pinching 

 back several times, and growing in the warm pit; then transfer 

 to a cool frame, giving plenty of light and air; bring into the 

 cool pit in September, placing in the warm pit as the flowers 

 begin to open. They may also be grown successfully from 

 cuttings planted. out in frames during the summer, and potted up 

 in the autumn. After flowering dry off, and cut back before 

 starting again in February; only syringe overhead at first till 

 they have well broken, then shake out the old soil and repot. 

 Soil : Light, fibrous loam, leaf-soil, sand, with rotten manure or 



