PLANTS FOR SUCCESSIVE DISPLAY IN THE FLOWER-GARDEN, ETC. 173 
rid of by syringings and fumigations of tobacco, repeated at intervals of a few days, so as 
to destroy all the young generation. The mealy-bug and brown scale do not like the 
turpentine flavour of the juice of the plant, for I have never found them on it in any 
quantity. They infest, however, Psidium Pomiferum and Pyriferum, and it is no easy 
matter to get rid of them from the rough nature of the leaves of these varieties. I have 
cultivated some six or seven varieties of Guavas altogether, but find they are all worthless 
as compared with Cattleyanum in flavour. One, a large-fruited white variety from Madras, 
has the most delicious aroma, when the fruit is ripe, of any kind of fruit I know ; but the 
inside is full of seeds, and the flavour is harsh and disagreeable. 
a Apple-shaped Guava — Psidium pomiferum. b Pear-shaped Guava — Psidium pyriferum. 
c Cattley’s Guava — Psidium Cattleyanum. 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTS FOR SUCCESSIVE DISPLAY IN THE FLOWER- 
GARDEN, DURING THE LATE AUTUMN MONTHS. &c. 
By William Wood, Fishergate Nurseries , York. 
Amongst the most useful of plants for decoration in beds en masse , are those which give 
out a late and long continued bloom, whether regarded for successive or permanent effect. 
The following descriptive sketches refer to some of the most useful, for their after-adapta- 
tion in being removed into pots at a late period, and transferred from the open ground as 
portable specimens for adorning the Greenhouse and Conservatory departments, during the 
late autumn and winter months. 
1. JBouvardia triphylla splendens. The finest variety in cultivation ; it is a neat 
and ornamental half-hardy plant, IS to 18 inches high, with terminal nodding clusters of 
rich scarlet trumpet-shaped flower-tubes, from July until October, forming a neat group or 
bed, requiring to be planted tolerably close, and though blooming freely in good ordinary 
soils, it is improved in habit, colour, and amount of bloom by using equal portions of 
sandy loam and heath-mould. 
2. Bouvardia triphylla angustifolia. Of similar habit and character to the preceding, 
but more slender and graceful in its style of growth. 
