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flowers are borne on the current season's growth, and the 

 plants may consequently be pruned almost back to the 

 old wood if necessary. 



Jackmani superba. — Large, dark violet-purple. 



Lilacina floribunda. — Pale grayish-lilac. 



Madame E. Andre (fig. 528). — Bright-crimson, free- 

 flowering. 



Smith's Snoiv-white Jackmani. — Paper-white. 



Star of India. — Reddish plum- coloured, with red bars. 



Velutina purpurea. — Blackish-mulberry. 



V. — Viticella Group. 



Flowering season and treatment the same as group IV. 

 Lady Bovill. — Flowers cupped, grayish-blue. 

 Madame Grange. — Crimson-violet, reddish in centre. 

 Mrs. J as. Bateman. — Pale -lavender. 

 Thomas Moore. — Bright-magenta, stamens white. 



VI. — Coccinea Group. 



C. coccinea is a species with fleshy pitcher - shaped 

 flowers, swollen at the base, and nearly closed at the top, 

 the tips of the sepals recurved. Being of a scarlet or 

 carmine colour, new shades as well as a new shape of 

 flower have been obtained by Messrs. Jackman by cross- 

 ing it with garden varieties : — 



Countess of Onslow. — Violet-purple, with a red band. 



Duchess of Albany. — Bright-pink and lilac. 



Duchess of York. — Blush-pink. 



[W. J. B.] 



Clivia (fig. 529). — A South African genus 

 of three species of free -flowering evergreen 

 plants belonging to the Amaryllis family. They 

 form sturdy compact masses of thick, strap- 

 shaped leaves resembling those of the Hippeas- 

 trum, and a fleshy root -stock. The showy 

 flowers are borne in large umbels on stout scapes 

 well above the leaves, and are usually various 

 shades of orange-red in colour. C. miniata far 

 surpasses the others in beauty, and from it, by 

 cross-breeding and selection, a useful race of 

 greenhouse plants has been obtained. They 

 are first-rate plants for many purposes, being 

 equally serviceable for conservatory, house de- 

 coration, or for cutting. If placed in a cool 

 room the cut flowers will last at least a fort- 

 night. To have them at their best an inter- 

 mediate temperature is necessary, though they 

 are not unhappy under greenhouse culture. 

 They do equally well when grown in pots or 

 borders. They are excellent for large houses, 

 where, if planted in the shade of some taller 

 plant, they still continue to grow and flower 

 well ; but if they can be given a sunny position, 

 where they can be rested during winter, so 

 much the better. Being quick growers and 

 rank feeders they must be planted in a rich 

 compost; good loam, mixed with a fair amount 

 of rotten manure and sand, being suitable. 

 Plants grown in pots, and which have been 



rested during winter, should be repotted in 

 February, kept close, and syringed frequently 

 until root-action has recommenced, and flower- 

 spikes appear, when more air and plenty of 

 moisture are necessary. For ordinary purposes 

 single-crowned plants in 6-inch pots are most 



Fig. 529.— Clivia miniata. 



serviceable, but where large specimens are re- 

 quired a number of strong plants may be put 

 together in 10-inch pots. Propagation is slow 

 if done by division. Seeds are readily ripened 

 and should be sown in heat, and the young 

 plants pricked off in a bed of good soil in an 

 intermediate house, where they will attain 

 flowering size in about three years. 



C. miniata. — The type has flowers 2 inches across and 

 3 inches long, orange-red, in umbels of from fifteen to 

 thirty each on stout erect scapes 12 to 18 inches long; leaves 

 sturdy, 2 feet long, straighter than in C. Gardeni. There 

 are numerous named varieties, differing from the type in 

 number, size, and shape of flowers, and intensity of colour. 

 Var. citrina is a distinct variety with pale-yellow flowers 

 and was introduced from Zululand in 1897. 



C. Gardeni. — Leaves 2 feet long, deep-green, arching. 

 Flowers pendulous, tubular, 1J inch long, orange, tinged 

 with red and tipped with green; in large loose heads. 



C. nobilis. — A sturdy plant with wider, more upright 

 leaves and longer flower-stems than either of the others; 

 but the flowers are smaller, tubular, red and yellow, 

 pendulous, and often fifty together in a loose umbel. 



C. cyrtanthiflora is a garden hybrid between C. 

 miniata and C. nobilis. The flowers are pendulous, in 

 large heads, and intermediate in size and shape between 

 the two parents, as also are the leaves. 



