REMARKS ON THE CULTURE OP THE GENUS LESCHENAULTIA. HI 
Having carefully potted them without disturbing the balls, set the pots in a 
situation where they will stand near the glass, and have plenty of light and air ; 
these are indispensable requisites. 
With respect to watering, if properly potted, they may, during the growing 
season, have a pretty liberal supply at the roots, and likewise may be syringed pretty 
freely ; but as the summer declines the quantity of water must be diminished, 
until, during the winter, no more will be required than just to keep the soil damp in 
the pots, and the foliage cannot then be kept too dry. 
If the plants are a good size, it will be an advantage if they are turned out of 
doors about the end of July or beginning of August, and allowed to remain out for a 
month or six weeks. As their growing season will then be over, this exposure will 
harden the young wood, and prevent their liability to suffer during the dark days of 
winter. It is indispensable, however, that they be placed in a partially shaded 
situation, not under the drip of trees, but where the mid-day sun will not have full 
power upon them. With this one exception of placing out of doors, (which, if the 
season be very wet, must not be done,) it is better to keep them all the year in an 
exposed and airy part of the greenhouse. 
About the beginning or middle of September, according to the state of the 
weather, again replace the plants in the greenhouse, and during the whole of the 
winter months water cautiously, and keep them free from frost, but otherwise keep 
them as cool and much exposed to light and air as possible. 
The L. biloba and several other species have a disposition to grow straggling and 
naked : to prevent this, and make the plants spreading and bushy, carefully stop 
all the young shoots when they have grown an inch or two long, they will then 
break again ; by this practice being judiciously followed, the plants, by the time 
they are two feet high, will be as much or more in diameter, and in the blooming 
season will be perfect pictures of flowers. 
They strike readily from cuttings planted in pots of sand, covered with a glass, 
and placed in a moderate heat ; they also often ripen seeds, which may be sown 
early in spring. If a quantity of young plants be grown every year, and stopped 
and treated as above, there will always be a succession of fine flowering specimens 
for display. 
The best kinds are — L. formosa, an old, but very favourite species, with red 
flowers ; L. biloba, an upright grower, with coarser foliage than the last, and bearing 
abundance of blue flowers ; L. arcuata, a new species, with yellow flowers, blotched 
with red, and L. splendens, a kind with scarlet flowers : these will give a great 
variety of colour, and, if judiciously arranged, will make no mean display in the 
greenhouse in early spring. 
