CORREA S — CRA SSULA . 



i 7 j 



If the start is made, as it well may be, with small plants already well established 

 in 5-inch pots : lightly prune these after flowering, and in the course of a fortnight 

 give a small shift, using clean, well-drained pots, and soil consisting of two parts 

 peat to one of fibrous loam, with sharp sand added, re-potting carefully and firmly. 

 Instead of attempting to train correas, top unruly growths sufficiently often to form 

 bushy heads, and support with a single stake if needed. During the summer, or 

 after the plants have been assisted to form strong growth, they may be arranged in 

 the open under a light canvas awning with other hard-wooded plants. In succeeding 

 years very similar treatment should be given. 



Selections of Correas. 



CARDiNALis (syn. C. SPECIOSA). — Height, 3 feet; 

 growth slender ; flowers bright scarlet, tipped 

 with green ; March. Of this species there are 

 several varieties. 



Haerisi. — A garden hybrid of branching, moder- 

 ately strong habit of growth. Flowers bright 

 scarlet. 



MAGNIFICA. — Another seedling form of free growth. 

 Flowers white and abundant. 



pxjlchella. — Tall - growing ; flowers produced 

 singly; white; April. 



Ventricosa.— Of a neat, twiggy habit of growth. 

 Flowers bright crimson. 



virens. — Flowers greenish, and not very attrac- 

 tive. 



CEASSULA. 



Of this family only two species are recommended for general greenhouse culture. 

 These are C. coccinea (also known as Kalosanthes coccinea) and C. jasminea. 



C. coccinea is a native of the Table Mountain, and is an old favourite both with 

 growers of exhibition plants and also for greenhouse and conservatory decoration. 

 Plants well furnished with large trusses of bright scarlet tubular flowers present a very 

 showy appearance, and large well-rounded specimens are particularly attractive in the 

 show tent during June or July. Propagation is effected by means of cuttings, formed 

 of either short lengths of firm growths or, preferably, of the tops in June or July. As 

 crassulas are of a succulent nature these cuttings should be exposed to the sun for 

 a day or two for the cuts to dry. Insert them thinly in well-drained pots filled 

 with a mixture of loam, leaf soil, and sand, and place on a greenhouse shelf. Water 

 sparingly till the cuttings are rooted. If five or six strong tops are rooted together 

 early in the summer these need not be separated nor topped, but should receive a shift 

 into a larger-sized pot, and be grown in the full sunshine. Thus treated each plant 

 ought to produce a fine flower head the following May or June. 



Neat little plants can be formed from cuttings in one season by not topping them, 



z 2 



