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RUSSELIA JUNCEA. 

 Class, Didynamia. Order, Angiospermia. 



ScROPHULARINiE. 



Native of Mexico. — Propagation, cuttings, 

 suckers. 



Mr. J. Edwards, Nurseryman, Layerthorpe, near 

 York, who cultivates this lovely plant to great per- 

 fection, adopts the following method of growing it. 

 He strikes cuttings in July, which, when rooted, 

 he pots into No. 90, and as they fill them with 

 roots, shifts them into the next size. He considers 

 it a bad practice to over pot the plants. If the 

 shifting be attended to as the plants require it, in 

 July following they will be established in No. 6, in 

 which size pot they are to remain for blossoming. 

 This is a plant which requires a heat of from 60° 

 to 65°, and to be placed as near the glass as pos- 

 sible. 



Water. — It should have an abundance when the 

 pot is full of roots. Many persons, indeed, con- 

 sider it to be an aquatic plant, but I find that so 

 to treat it, before it is well established in the pot, 

 is injurious to it; but it delights at all times in 

 being well syringed. 



Soil. — Equal parts rich loam and peat. 



This plant is grown in the greenhouse in many 

 places ; but in this situation it will never assume 

 that commanding appearance which it will do when 

 grown as recommended above. 



