84 THE BOOK OF THE WINTER GARDEN 



Cape Jessamine 



{Gardenia fiorida)^ of which the double form is most 

 grown. These were once more fashionable flowers 

 than now, their fall having been occasioned by the penny 

 blooms hawked so largely in the London streets. 

 Popularly it is the *' Cape Jessamine," but is really a 

 Chinese plant, from which in Britain flowers may be had 

 throughout the year if a stove is obtainable. Cuttings, 

 rooted in the early weeks of the year, may be grown on 

 in a stove to provide flowers next Christmas. Potted as 

 required, and shoots stopped, good bushy plants may be 

 produced. This Gardenia is not unseldom seen in a 

 filthy state, as, unless the plants are freely syringed, mealy 

 bug will speedily spread and ruin. Two-year-old plants 

 are good ; after their young growths are made they may 

 be placed in a cooler house for a month or two, removing 

 them to more warmth in September for flower at Christ- 

 mas and after. Old plants of Gardenia should not be 

 kept for ever planted out in a stove bed ; they often fail 

 to produce the same number of flowers per square foot 

 as do younger plants. 



Heliotrope 



(Heliotr opium). — For good winter plants, treat as Zonal 

 Pelargoniums. 



Violet Cress 



{lonopsidium acaule), — A tiny annual, a few inches high, 

 with a profusion of small violet flowers during winter, if 

 seed is sown in small pots or pans at the end of July 

 and once or twice in August. Keep outside until frost 

 threatens, then remove to the coolest portion of the 

 greenhouse. 



