REFORM IN THE CONSERVATORY. 



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wliicli spread about siich great fronds covered with swarms 

 of little plants on their surface, grow under such con- 

 ditions without trouble, compared to what the commoner 

 and smaller stuff, as the gardeners call it, requires. For 

 instance, a Dracaena, growing in a pot or planted out, 

 never requires any attention beyond watering, whereas a 

 Pelargonium must be cut down and regrown every year. 



Fig. 123. 



Tlieophrasta rnacrophylla. 



causing much labour for staking, &c. And it is not only 

 the Palms, Cycads, Tree Perns, Dracaenas, and fine-leaved 

 plants generally which thrive throughout the year in a cool 

 temperature that we may enjoy therein ; nearly all similar 

 plants that flourish in stoves would well bear being intro- 

 duced to the cool conservatory or winter garden after their 

 vigorous spring and early summer growth had been matured. 

 Left there during the hottest months they would be more 



