FEW SELECT CLIMBING STOVE PLANTS. 
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and occasionally washed with a sponge during the growing season, no fear need be 
entertained of the insects making any serious inroad upon the health of the plants 
or beauty of their foliage. 
From the preceding remarks, it will be seen that the main things to be attended 
to in the management of these plants, is to get an early and well-ripened growth, a 
long season of rest, to start the plants very gently in the growing season, and to 
avoid training the shoots until they are of considerable length. 
Schubertia graveolens. — This plant was first brought into public notice in the 
nursery of Mr. Glendinning, at Chiswick, and was grown for some time under the 
name of Pliysianthus auricomus, by which designation it is known at the present 
time in some establishments. It is a plant of vigorous growth, producing a bunch 
of flowers at the axil of each leaf, like the Steiihanotis, which it also resembles in 
the form of the flower. It is very powerfully scented, and the colour of the flower 
is a delicate creamy white. 
The best method of management is to strike cuttings after the old plants have 
done flowering, which root readily in a brisk bottom-heat in any sandy soil. After 
they are rooted, pot them off singly, and keep them growing until you get the pots 
well filled with roots. From July until October is the proper season of flowering ; 
but by proper treatment it may be got into bloom a month or six weeks sooner, and 
then it forms a very fine exhibition plant. 
To attain this end, take a nice strong plant in January, and give it a liberal 
shift, using the same soil as for the Stephanotis, except that a small portion more 
loam may be added to it. Plunge the pot in a brisk bottom-heat of from 70° to 80°> 
and keep a lively atmospheric temperature. If the heat is produced by fermenting 
materials it will be the best, but, if it is not, the pit or house must be fre- 
quently sprinkled with manure-water, to improve the atmosphere of the place 
as much as possible. In such a situation the plant will grow with great vigour, 
and by March will be ready for a second shift ; at this time do not spare pot-room, 
return the plant to the forcing-house, replunge it, keeping a bottom-heat of 80°, 
and the atmospheric temperature in the same proportion. Under such circum- 
stances the plant will grow with great rapidity, so as by May to cover a large trellis. 
By this time the pot will be quite full of roots ; and, therefore, to induce the plant 
to form flower-buds, it will be necessary to moderate its growth a little by placing it 
in an airy and unshaded part of the house, and by giving no more water than what 
is necessary to prevent its drooping. A fortnight or three weeks of this treatment 
will induce the formation of flower-buds, and these being perceptible, the old system 
of liberal treatment may be followed, as the blooming principle, once brought forth 
in this plant, it will continue to flower until the autumn ; especially if it is abundantly 
supplied with manure-water, and kept in a growing temperature, Being a native of 
the interior of Brazil it requires plenty of heat and moisture during the growing 
season, but after the flowers begin to expand the temperature of a warm green- 
house will be found sufficient to carry the plant through the autumn months. 
