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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS scolymus 



Disc flattish, naked. Aohenes angled, 

 top-shaped or oblong. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 species described below are more or less 

 hardy in the milder parts of the British 

 Islands, but they cannot always be 

 successfully grown. They may be in- 

 creased by cuttings in spring placed in 

 sandj' soil in a cold frame or greenhouse, 

 and kept close until nearly rooted. The 

 plants like a rich loamy soU, and seem to 

 thrive best in sheltered airy places, facing 

 west or south-west, trained against walls 

 or trellises. Hot dry soils should be 

 avoided if possible, or where such only are 

 available a good quantity of weU-rotted 

 manure, leaf-soil, peat and other decayed 

 organic matter may be added to give 

 counteracting effects. 



M. Clematis. — This fast-growing herb- 

 aceous climber, with stems 10-30 ft. long, 

 is found in Colombia, Peru, and Ecua- 

 dor at elevations ranging from 6000 to 

 11,000 ft. Leaves pinnate, with 7-9 pairs of 

 leaflets, each ending in a branched tendril, 

 and clothed with silky down beneath. 

 Flower-heads large, bright red. Likely 

 to be hardy only on the southern coasts 

 in warm sheltered places. 



Culture dc. as above. 



M. decurrens. — A handsome climbing 

 perennial, native of the Chilian Andes, 

 with lance-shaped glaucous deourrent 

 leaves, ending in a tendril. Flowers fi'om 

 June to August, 4^6 in. across, brilliant 

 orange, with a yellow centre. Ray florets 

 about I in. across. Involucre bluish-green 

 tinged with purple. 



Culture So. as above. 



M. ilicifolia. — A beautiful but tender 

 Chilian climber with wiry cobwebby 

 stems, and leathery spiny-toothed Holly- 

 like leaves about 2 in. long, ending in a 

 hranched tendril. Flowers Lu summer, 

 axUlary, 3 in. across, pale pink or white, 

 with a lemon-yellow centre. 



Culture do. as above. 



M. latifolia. — A singular climbing 

 shrub, native of Valparaiso, with leafy 



winged stems, and heart-shaped oblong 

 spiny-toothed stalked leaves, woolly 

 beneath. Flowers in autumn, pink and 

 yellow. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



GERBERA. — A genus containing 

 about 20 species of almost stemless herbs, 

 with a very short perennial rootstock. 

 Leaves radical, entire, sinuate-pinnatifid, 

 downy or woolly beneath. Scape erect 

 with a solitary heterogamous flower-head. 

 Involucre more or less broadly beU- 

 shaped, with 2 or more rows of lance- 

 shaped hnear bracts. Disc flat, naked, or 

 sUghtly pitted. Achenes more or less 

 flattened, 5-ribbed, hairy. Pappus with 

 copious bristles. (?. anandria from Japan 

 and G. lanuginosa from the Himalayas 

 have been introduced to cultivation, but 

 are practically unknown. 



G. Jamesoni. — A beautiftil plant l-lj 

 ft. high, native of the Transvaal, with 

 rosettes of dark green pinnately divided 

 leaves, and solitary heads of glowing 

 scarlet flowers 3 in. across v?ith a yellow 

 centre. Bay florets linear, strap-shaped 

 acute. 



Culture and Propagation. — This 

 species can be considered hardy only in 

 the very mildest parts of the country, but 

 it has not yet been grown in any quantity 

 out of doors, so that its behaviour cannot 

 be recorded. It is usually grown as a 

 cold greenhouse plant with plenty of light 

 and air, and in a compost of sandy loam 

 and peat. It may be raised from seeds 

 sown in gentle heat in spring. 



G. viridifolia. — An interesting but not 

 nearly so showy a species as Q. Jamesoni. 

 It is a native of S. Africa and grows 

 about a foot high. The lance-shaped 

 entire leaves, with long stalks, are usually 

 inverted, and the individual flower-heads 

 are nearly 2 in. across. The ray florets 

 are wliite above, and flushed with Ulac 

 beneath. The flowers unfortunately do 

 not remain expanded all day, but close 

 more or less about mid-day. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



Tribe XIII. Cichoeiace^ or Ligulifloe^.. — Leaves radical or alternate. Juice 

 often milky. Flower-heads homogamous ; florets all strap-shaped. 



SCOLYMUS.— Agenuswith3 species 

 of smooth Thistle-like annuals, biennials 

 or perennials with alternate pinnately cut 

 and toothed spiny leaves. Flower-heads 



terminal or lateral, sessile. Involucre 

 ovoid or roundish, with leathery spiny 

 ' bracts. Disc conical or elongated. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 



