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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



with yellowish whitish flowers ; soil peat and loam : 

 —increase by cuttings in sand under a bell-glass in 

 the manner of Heaths. 

 Cistus vaginatus, B. R. 225. 

 C. ladaniferus, B. M. 112. 

 . C, incanus, B. M. 43. 



Large flowers of momentary duration, generally 

 whitish with yellow or dark purple spots ; the plants 

 very hardy and increased by cuttings ; soil peat and 

 loam, with sand. 



HeliantJiemum formdsuMy B. M. 264. 



H, halimifdlium. 



H. algarvense, B. M. 627. 



H. Ics'vipes, B. M. 1782. 



Showy fugacious flowers like those of Cistus ; the 

 plants hardy and of easy culture in sandy loam, or 

 loam and a little peat. 



Mdlva capensis. Small red flowers on an upright 

 plant which is in bloom most of the summer. It 

 is readily grown in any soil, and increased by 

 seeds, Avhich it produces in abundance. 



Correa and Pittosporwn are hardy evergreen genera 

 that stand the open air in Jersey and Guernsey: 

 they have white flowers which appear in this 

 month ; but, excepting to fill up a very cold part of 

 the green-house, or for the sake of their fine fo- 

 liage and bushy shapes, few besides C. speciosa 

 can be recommended in very select collections. 



Pultence^a daphnoides, B. M. 1394. 



P. ohcordata, A. R. 574. 



