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become dry at the roots. Use stronger soil for flowering plants. Prune after flowering, 

 but only shortening long growths, and winter in cool greenhouse. This beautiful 

 flowering shrub passes the winter safely against sunny walls in the South of England. 



CHOBOZEMA. 



These bright-flowered, hard- wooded plants must be included among numerous other 



old favourites that have been largely super- 

 seded by more easily grown soft-wooded 

 genera. They are yet quite worthy of reten- 

 tion either for greenhouse or conservatory 

 culture, for which they are well adapted, 

 growing them in pots and training over 

 globular trellises, or they may be planted 

 in narrow borders and trained up pillars 

 and the walls of cool plant houses generally. 

 The flowers are pea-shaped, bright in colour 

 and abundantly produced, the chorozema 

 when at its best being among the most 

 attractive greenhouse plants. 



Culture. — Plants are more easily raised 

 from seed than from cuttings. Seeds should 

 be sown in March in sandy, peaty soil and 

 placed in a temperature of 65° to 70°. 

 Cuttings of firm young shoots can also be 

 rooted in the summer under a bell-glass in 

 ordinary greenhouse temperature. Both 

 seedling and cutting-raised plants must be 

 placed singly in 2|-inch pots and grown 

 first on a greenhouse shelf, then in a cold 

 frame. They may be either topped or allowed to branch naturally. From these small 

 pots gradually shift the plants into larger sizes, using a mixture of equal parts of good 

 fibrous loam and peat, with sharp sand freely added, always potting very firmly. If 

 the larger plants are neatly trained to trellises, little or no pruning is necessary, but 

 those grown more loosely may be shortened back directly after flowering. When a 



Fig. 79. Chorozema cohdatum splendens. 



