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of from 55 to 60 degrees, allowing them plenty of light, or the shoots will be apt 
to draw and become weakly. 
When the shoots are three or four inches high, syringe them frequently with 
pure water, to prevent the attacks of the red spider (acarus) ; unless this is well 
attended to, that destructive insect will soon render the plants very unsightly, if 
not wholly prevent their flowering. 
Continue to treat them thus till they show flower, then allow plenty of air and 
moisture, and they will flower freely again in July. 
When in full bloom they may be removed to the greenhouse or conservatory, 
where, placed among other exotics, they will greatly add to the gaiety and splendour 
of the house. 
If it is wished to have them flower again, after they have done flowerings again 
re-pot them, cut down the young wood as before, take them back to the stove, and 
treat as before, and they will flower again in the months of October and November; 
but the best plan is to give them a winter after they have flowered twice. 
In warm situations out of doors, both this and the E. laurifolia will grow and 
flower freely, but only once in the year ; and they require cutting down to about 
four inches of the stem on the approach of winter, and to be sheltered by an 
inverted flower-pot, or the roots to be dug up and potted, or kept in a dry cellar 
until the approach of spring. 
Cuttings of the stems made at the time the plants are cut down strike very 
freely planted singly in small pots, and plunged in a strong moist heat under a 
handglass, and slightly shaded until they have taken root, which will be in three 
weeks or a month ; then expose them gradually until they will bear the temperature 
of the stove. 
The plant from which our drawing was made flowered finely in our stove at 
Chatsworth. 
The generic name applies to the colour of the flowers, which are a brilliant 
scarlet or red, and sometimes orange ; most of the species partake of these colours 
in a high degree. 
