HYDRANGEA —ISOLEPIS. 



greenhouse, as required. All shoots, whether the plants are in or out of pots, should be 

 cut down to within 2 inches of the older wood in late autumn, and the strong resulting 

 growths in spring will give fine panicles of hloom. Plant out after flowering. 



isolepis. — Isolepis gracilis is better known to cultivators under that name than by 

 the more modern one, Scirpus riparius. There are few better plants for arranging along 

 the fronts of greenhouse stages than this little " Club Grass." It is a perennial, but is 



Fig. 94. Hydrangea paniculata gbandifloea. 



the most ornamental in a young state, or before dense tufts are formed. Its cultural re- 

 quirements are of the simplest description. Seed may be sown in a pan filled with leaf 

 soil and loam covered with glass and placed in a temperature of 60° to 70° to germinate. 

 The tiny plants, if the seed is not too heavily covered, will come up thickly, and should 

 be early moved in small patches, placing these in 2|-inch pots of rich, loamy soil. Keep 

 them growing in gentle heat, taking care not to turn them yellow by over- watering. No 

 shift need be given unless larger plants are required, in which case move them into 



