HEDYCHIUM — HIBBER TIA . 



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the noble spikes of lemon yellow, sweet-scented flowers are usually at their best in 

 July. Both species are nearly hardy, and succeed well in a cool greenhouse. They are 

 increased by division of their rhizomes, or creeping stems, in March or April. Hedy- 

 chiums are frequently left in the 

 same pots or tubs for many years 

 in succession, and flower fairly 

 well under this starvation treat- 

 ment. Far better results, how- 

 ever, attend the practice of giving 

 them fresh rich soil every spring. 

 Turn them out of their pots, 

 fork away much of the old soil 

 from the roots, and return to 

 either fresh pots or tubs just large 

 enough to hold the rhizomes com- 

 fortably. Good drainage should 

 be afforded because hedychiums 

 must have abundance of water 

 and liquid manure when growing. 

 The stronger the growths formed, 

 the finer will be the flower spikes, 

 only feeble growths refusiug to 

 flower. After the flowering period 

 less water will be required. The 

 old stems may be cut down in the 

 autumn, and the plants wintered 

 in the back-ground of a green- 

 house or conservatory. 



hibbertia. — Of this com- 

 paratively large genus, about five 



species are recommended for greenhouse culture. II. Cunninghami, Western Australia, 

 is of slender twining growth, and produces yellow flowers in July. H. dentata, New 

 Caledonia, is also a twiner ; flowers dark yellow ; spring and summer. H. grossulariaj- 

 folia is of trailing habit, and well adapted for filling hanging baskets ; flowers, yellow 

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Fig. 93. Hibbertia p::rfouata. 



