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after the second or third season, while 
some growers prefer to start afresh each 
spring. 
In the main of simple culture, their 
needs are rich soil, a moist and genial 
atmosphere while in growth, and rather 
less heat while hardening and when in 
flower. Their value lies in the fact that 
they bloom for the most part during 
winter, when their bright heads of flower 
are useful in lighting up the greenhouse 
or for rooms, lasting for several weeks 
in beauty. For this work plants in small 
pots are the best, and these may be raised 
each spring from young tops rooted in 
heat and grown on freely till their flower- 
ing pots are well filled with roots, when 
they are kept going by liquid manure. 
These young plants may be stopped 
once, or even twice if started early and 
intended to flower late, but being very 
long j ointed, no amount of pinching will 
make them bushy and it is best to aim at 
a few stout shoots and large heads, than 
to risk loss of flower through weakened 
growths. Old plants may be cut back 
after a rest, and do very well in larger pots 
for a second season, but after this they 
become naked. If neglected,even young 
plants soon take an ugly look by the loss 
of their leaves, which, while handsome 
in health, are sensitive to drought, sud- 
den changes of temperature, and in some 
cases to fog and gaslight. Red spider, 
to which they are subject, has the same 
effect and must be kept away by vigorous 
growth in a moist atmosphere, with 
abundance of water at the root while 
active. Small plants of yacobinia Poh- 
liana are cleverly grown for the French 
market by getting large plants to form 
their cone-like flower-heads early, and 
then, while still undeveloped, these tops 
are rooted as cuttings and open their 
flowers at once, in little pots which find 
a ready sale for house decoration. 
Most of the Jacobinias are old plants, 
but one kind is new, having come to 
France only a few years ago, and useful 
in the open during summer and under 
glass in autumn. Coming from Uru- 
guay, yacobinia suberecta is less tender 
than most, with a trailing habit and small 
white leaves rather like those of the sil- 
very Gnaphalium, and fitted for the same 
uses. In addition to its pretty foliage it 
bears bright heads of orange- crimson 
flowers distinct and beautiful in the au- 
tumn, but coming rather late these are 
not always seen at their best in the open 
but will finish blooming in the green- 
house. This new kind does not seem to 
have yet found its way into English gar- 
dens, but is offered by French houses, 
and is a pretty plant. 
yacobinia aurea. — An erect shrub of 4 to 6 
feet, with large rounded leaves upon long stalks, 
and tubular flowers of bright yellow in large 
crowded heads, borne at the tips of the shoots. 
Does best in an intermediate house, flowering 
from July to late autumn, but is now rarely met 
with. Honduras. ^yn.Cyrtantheracatalpcefolia. 
y. chry so Stephana. — Till within the last two 
or three years this plant had also well-nigh dis- 
appeared from gardens,spite of its beautyduring 
the winter months. It is an erect shrub with 
angular shoots and dark green leaves, shaded 
with reddish-purple beneath and threaded by 
red veins. Its bright orange-yellow flowers, of 
a lighter shade within the curved tube, are 
carried in dense flat heads and last in beauty for 
many weeks. It is easily raised from cuttings, 
and grown in an intermediate house. Mexico. 
Syn. Cyrtanthera chrysostephana. 
y. coccinea. — A handsome kind, seen re- 
cently at the meetings of the Royal Horticul- 
