GEXERA OF SIMILAE HABIT. 



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GXAPHALirM, METALASIA, ASTELMA, ELICHHYSUM, HELICHRYSUM, 

 PH^XOCOMA, AND APHELEXIS. 



These are greenhouse plants of very great beaut}-, and formerly stood 

 under the names of GnajjJiaUum and EUchrymm. All of them are readily 

 increased by seeds, "vrhich often ripen in this country, and are sometimes 

 imported from the Cape of Good Hope, from -whence most of them come. 

 The seeds should be sown as soon as ripe, or as soon as receiyed, in hght 

 sandy peat soil, placed in a dry^ any situation, in a pit or greenhouse. 

 When they vegetate and are about an inch high, they should be potted off 

 into small pots, three or four plants in each, as recommended for heaths. 

 The hard-TTooded species have been by most cultivators considered very 

 difficult to increase by cuttings, but if they be planted in sand in a brisk 

 hotbed and left uncovered, they vdll root freely. Even pieces of con- 

 siderable size of Phcenocoma prolifera^ one of the handsomest of the 

 tribe, have been successfully propagated in this manner. These plants are 

 much admii'ed on accoimt of the beauty of their flowers ; and from the 

 circumstance of their retaining then* colours and perfect forms long after 

 they are cut, they have obtained the name of everlasting flowers. Sandy 

 peat soil is the most suitable for them when rooted, and the same after- 

 treatment as recommended for Ericas will suit them. 



ADEXAXDRA, BARYOSMA, AGATHOSMA, AXD DIOSMA, 



Were originally ranged under the genus Diosma. This is a section of 

 handsome plants, bearing some resemblance to heaths, and flowering 

 abundantly. To many the scent of this tribe is unpleasant, while with 

 others it is quite the reverse. Cuttings of the tips of the young shoots 

 root freely-planted in sand, and placed in a cool place under a bell glass. 

 Many of them ripen their seeds in our gardens, from which a stock 

 is soon procured. They prefer a soil similar to Heaths, and prosper best 

 when treated in the same manner as that delightful family. 



CORR^A. 



This genus strikes freely, if we except C. speciosa. The cuttings should 

 be taken off the ripened wood, planted in sand in autumn, and allowed to 

 stand till spring in a cool pit, when they should be placed upon a shght 

 bottom heat and left uncovered ; they will soon strike root, and may then 

 be potted off into small pots, and hardened to stand in the greenhouse. 

 C. speciosa is better to be enarched or grafted on stocks of C. alba ; by 

 this means large plants wiU be obtained in a short time. A hght sandy 



