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temperature. Before they start into fresh, growth a display at just the season of the year when the 



the young wood should he cut back to within a few surroundings are dull and gloomy, 



eyes of the place they previously started from, and A. acntifolia. — Stems quadrangular ; leaves ohlong- 



after some few leaves are made the jDoints of the ovate, and acuminate, some six to eight inches long. 



Aealia Yeitchii. 



shoots should be pinched out in order to produce 

 a greater numher of growths; when, as before 

 remarked, care and attention is required to develop 

 handsome specimens. Aphelandras are mostly 

 winter-blooming plants, and are therefore doubly 

 valuable, as their brilliant flowei-s serve to maintain 



rich glossy green on the uj)per side, paler beneath : 

 flower-spike terminal, as long as the leaves ; bracts 

 large, green, tinged with purple ; flowers intense 

 deep red. Autumn, and winter months. Widely 

 distributed in South America. 



A. aurantiaca. — Leaves broadly-ovate, and of a 



