ORCHIDS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS ^2> 



Jacquemontia violacea has blue convolvulus-like flowers. 



Clerodendron splendens with intense scarlet flowers, and 

 Thunhergia laurifolia with large blue flowers, are best 

 suited for large houses. 



Asystasia scandensy Ipomoea Horsfalliae, Corynostylis 

 Hybanthus, Clitoria Ternatea are excellent. Solatium 

 pensile, Allamanda grandiflora, and Aristolochia elegans may 

 also be had in flower during the winter. 



Greenhouse Roof Plants 



comprise the elegant white margined leaved Cohaea 

 scandens variegata, grown for its foliage, and Senecio 

 macroglossus y with ivy-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. 

 Tibouchina macrantha Jloribunda, with 5"^^^^ purple 

 flowers, is splendid for clothing pillars. Acacia leprosa, 

 juncifolia, Riceana, dealbata ('* mimosa") and others are 

 suitable for covering pillars. They are evergreen. 



Basket Plants 



Cool House. — Ivy - leaved Pelargoniums, Corydalis 

 thalictrifolia, Lopezia lineata, Lachenalia Nelsoniy and many 

 bulbs taken out of boxes when in bud and arranged 

 with ferns, etc., in moss. 



Warm House — Achimenes (started in July), Begonias, 

 Gloire de Lorraine^ and others (page 60). Ficus radicans 

 variegata, ferns, etc. Asparagus Sprengeri, A. S. variegata 

 and Panicum, 



