66 THE FLORIST AND 
"weight has brought them nearly horizontal ; the best position to show their 
flowers to advantage, being slightly turned up at the points, and it really 
has a very effective appearance. No stakes, whatever, should be used, as 
the shoots, under proper care, are strong enough to support themselves. 
To secure this, it should always have abundance of light, and not be 
crowded up with other plants. 
Propagation and Culture. 
Cuttings strike readily the ordinary way, selecting the points of the 
strongest and healthiest shoots, and we prefer the month of January to do 
it in, so as to secure a nice little plant the first season. When it is rooted, 
it should be potted off into a three-inch pot, and allowed to grow six or 
eight inches, or even a foot, when it should be cut back to within three or 
four leaves of the bottom. Two, if not three, of these leaves will produce 
a shoot each, after which it should receive a size larger pot. No benefit 
will result by pinching during the summer's growth, and the plant should 
be wintered in a warm green-house. 
Early in the spring, cut back to within three or four leaves of the stem, 
and give it the benefit of a little bottom heat, if possible. This will probably 
start a shoot from each leaf, after which it should be shifted into two sizes 
larger pot, and kept growing all the summer in a moist pit or stove, where 
it will, if continued in the stove, produce flowers during winter, or if 
wintered again in the green-house, during the summer. 
The plant now being established, will require periodically cutting down, 
as before stated, and started into growth by bottom heat, and occasionally 
repotted. If it is wished to have a single stem of a desired height, it should 
be trained up at least a foot above that height, and then cut back to the 
height, and otherwise treated as a bush. We believe it will be found to 
flower more profusely if allowed to do so during winter. For soil, use two 
parts rough peat to one of fibry loam, with one part of well decayed cow- 
dung and sand, equal quantities. 
TiLGATE. 
Crinum Giganteum. — A large fragrant flowering Lily from Guiana, 
having leaves a foot and a half long, and an erect flower stem nearly two 
feet high, bearing on its apex an umbel of 4 — 6 white flowers, each flower 
when expanded being 7 — 8 inches across, and having a strip of green on the 
outside of each petal. — Hotes from Kew. 
