10 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 



Bouvardias are members of the great order of Cinchonads, 

 and are, therefore, remarkably well connected as regards 

 family relationships. In this order we find the trees that 

 produce Peruvian bark, and with them such important 

 subjects as coffee, ixora, rondeletia, manettia, gardenia, 

 musssenda, and ipecacuanha. Of Dr. Bouvard, curator of 

 the Botanic Garden at Paris, there is not much known; 

 but we find in the books a treatise on the iungi of the 

 forest of Mormal, published at Lille, but whether by the 

 man of science to whom the genus Bouvardia is dedicated, 

 we cannot say. 



The Cinchonads agree pretty nearly in one of their re- 

 quirements. When under cultivation they need more than 

 the average warmth of the greenhouse, many of them 

 being true stove plants, and a few requiring the hottest 

 place in the stove. The bouvardia is an exception so far 

 that greenhouse cultivation suffices for it ; but to enjoy its 

 beautiful flowers in winter, something approximating to 

 stove culture must be practised. For keeping the plants 

 in health a temperature of 35° to 45° Fahr. suffices during 

 winter, but we prefer to get them forward for winter 

 llowers, and to provide for them a temperature of 50° to 

 65°, with a rather liberal amount of atmospheric moisture, 

 for when thus aided they bloom with delightful freedom, 

 and there is nothing in the winter garland under glass 

 that can surpass them. 



Bouvardias may be grown from seeds and cuttings. 

 In a garden of limited extent, propagation by cuttings 

 alone should be practised, as it is at once certain, simple, 

 and rapid. The cuttings should be taken from growing 

 plants in the month of March or April, and planted firmly 

 in sandy pe.it, and the process of rooting is promoted by 



