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