ADDITIONAL LIST OF PLANTS. 



rock-work, and may be used with good effect for 

 out-door hanging baskets or vases, as it grows rap- 

 idly and trails four or five feet. 



Gloxinia, are handsome summer-blooming s;reen- 

 house plants, with rich and varied coloring of the 

 flowers. The bulbs should be started in spring and 

 after blooming all summer, require a season of 

 rest. This can be done by gradually withholding 

 water from them. After they are dried off, they 

 may be kept in a warm, dry cellar. 



Gypsophildy a delicate-foliaged, free-flowering 

 plant, growing four inches high, easily raised from 

 seed, and suitable for baskets or boxes. G. Muralis, 

 pink flowers, and G. Paniculata, white. 



Lapagevia Rosea, one of the most beautiful vines 

 known for cool conservatories or rooms, is an 

 evergreen continuing in bloom a greater part of the 

 year, leaves ovate-acuminate, two inches long, the 

 stem green and slender. The flowers are three 

 inches long, tube-shaped, of deep rose color out- 

 side, delicately marbled with a lighter and darker 

 rovse within. It is best propagated by divisions of 

 the roots or by seeds, as cuttings make weak, short- 

 lived plants. It does best in sandy peat, well drain- 

 ed, kept moist, and at a low temperature. 



Laurestinus, a free-growing, free-blooming, ever- 

 green shrub, with small white flowers in large flat- 

 tened panicles, blooming from February to May. 

 They should be grow n m large pots and watered 

 plentifully. 



