JESCHYNANTHUS — A GALMYLA—A GLA ONEMA . 



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3 inches long, of half-ripened wood, taken in February, and inserted in sandy peat. A 

 bottom heat of about 80° is desirable, and the cuttings should be covered with a bell 

 glass. When well rooted let the plants be placed singly in small pots, in a glazed case 

 in the stove, till they are established. The following February or March shift them 

 into their flowering quarters. A portion of the plants may be fastened to blocks, 

 enclosing the roots in a mixture of peat, sphagnum moss, sand, and charcoal, covering 

 this with more of the sphagnum, and keeping all together with the aid of copper wire. 

 Suspending baskets are more often used. These should be firmly lined with fresh moss, 

 and filled with a compost similar to that recommended for blocks, only rather coarser. 

 One or several plants may be placed in each basket, and the subsequent attention 

 needed is to peg down the trailing growths to the soil or moss till a good even mass 

 has been formed. Kemoving the flowers directly they show on small plants tends to 

 promote stronger growth. During the summer the plants must be kept uniformly 

 moist at the roots, occasionally dipping the baskets in tubs of tepid water, frequent 

 syringings being also required. If kept cooler and drier during the winter they will 

 flower grandly the following summer. 



agalmyla. — The only species in this small family of gesneracceous plants recom- 

 mended for cultivation in stoves is A. staminia, a native of Java. It is of a trailing 

 habit of growth, admirably adapted for growing in hanging baskets, flowering in the 

 summer ; flowers scarlet in axillary fascicles. It is increased by cuttings of firm 

 shoots under a bell glass, in a temperature of 80° in July or August. The treatment, 

 including the soil recommended for iEschynanthus, applies equally well to Agalmyla. 



aglaonema. — Not many of these are grown. They are nearly allied to Arum, and 

 might easily be mistaken for members of that family. A. pictum, Borneo, is most 

 generally grown. This species has green leaves blotched with grey, and produces 

 creamy yellow spathes in August. May be increased by division just when new growth 

 is commencing in the spring. Use well-drained pots and a compost of rough fibrous 

 loam, leaf soil, a little decayed manure, and coarse sand. A somewhat shady position 

 suits the plants, and they should have abundance of water when growing and flowering, 

 but during the winter they ought to be kept rather dry at the roots. 



ALLAMANDA. 



Very few stove plants are better known or more deservedly popular than Alla- 

 mandas. They are indispensable to the exhibitor of stove and greenhouse plants, and 



