100 GUIDE TO THE CONSERVATORY. 



GARDENIA FLORIDA, FLORA PLENA, 

 FRAGRANS. 

 Class, Pentandria. Order, Monogynia. 



RuBIACEiEr 



Native of China and East Indies. — Propagation^ 

 cuttings. 



Mr. Smithes who succeeds in the cultivation of 

 this fragrant plant much better than I have seen 

 elsewhere, gives the following instructions. Early 

 in the spring take large cuttings, with a little of the 

 old wood attached, plant them in pots half rilled 

 with potsherds, the remainder with peat soil andcaliy 

 sand mixed, then put the cuttings under a hand or 

 bell-glass in the cutting frame, from where there 

 is a gentle bottom heat ; when struck root, pot off 

 into small pots in the same kind of compost in which 

 they were raised, and place them in the plant stove ; 

 shift them as they fill their pots with roots during the 

 summer. Early in February following shift them 

 into No. 24, in which pots they are to bloom. 

 When they have ceased flowering, shift again 

 into No. 16, and the following season into No. 12, 

 and so on until they are too large for your house ; 

 then throw the old plants away. Never shake the soil 

 from the roots, but shift them with the ball entire. 



Give a good supply of water when in a grow- 

 ing state, but withhold it in winter, only watering 

 them when the mould is dry. 



