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BOTANICAL TERMS. 
the plant, and, in its maturer stages, the mass 
of soil in which it requh*es to be placed, re- 
quires the utmost care in the arrangement of 
the materials forming the compost, and the 
application of the usual forms of drainage. 
Besides a large potsherd formed of a piece of 
broken flower pot, which will be a little 
rounded, and should be laid the convex side 
downwards, a good layer of roundish pieces of 
potsherd, or of broken charcoal, should be laid 
in the bottom ; this layer may occupy about 
one part in six of the depth of the pot, and on 
it should be placed another layer of about the 
same thickness of rough turfy soil, broken 
into lumps of greater or less size according to 
the size of the pot. Then the compost em- 
ployed should consist of rough turfy soil- 
about equal parts of turfy loam and turfy 
heath soil being used, and lightened by the 
addition of silver sand ; the soil should not be 
sifted but broken, so that the largest lumps 
may bear some proportion to the size of the 
pot employed ; thus for a pot six inches deep, 
these lumps may be an inch in diameter, and 
for one two feet deep they may be as much as 
three inches, a fair proportion of the soil being 
broken up finer, and used along with these 
lumps. In potting, the old ball of earth and 
roots must be set so that the fresh soil, when 
the new pot is properly filled up — to within 
about an inch of the top if large — may just 
cover the old. If the plants are not kept in 
pots, but planted out for the purpose of cover- 
ing pillars or trellis work in the hothouse, a 
compartment of at least two feet in diameter 
and the same in depth should be provided for 
the roots, and this is best formed of brickwork, 
so as to prevent the entrance of the roots of 
other more rapid growing plants, to the soil 
provided for the Stephanotis ; if it is conve- 
nient, the size of these compartments may be 
increased as the plants gain size. The com- 
post and its arrangement should be the same 
as in the case of the pots; only here, in propor- 
tion to the difficulty of applying a remedy, the 
necessity of making due provision for the 
drainage of superfluous water is, if possible, 
more peremptory. 
The growing temperature and atmosphere 
of a plant stove suits this plant during its 
period of active growth ; and when at rest in 
winter, the coolness which should ever mark 
the artificial temperature of a plant house at 
that period, will be properly conducive to its 
repose ; then again, in the height of summer, 
when the plant has arrived at a flowering state, 
a warm greenhouse will be suitable for the 
preservation of its blossoms. In short, as 
regards atmosphere and temperature, it may 
be treated exactly as other stove plants of 
a woody character. 
The training of the branches .requires some 
attention. The branches are permanent, and 
require to be managed with this fact in view. 
Pot plants are better trained round cylin- 
drical-shaped trellises, in preference to flat 
ones, which some prefer, but which are found 
not to range well with other plants. Cylin- 
drical trellises are covered by training the 
branches spirally round them, care being taken 
to lead a supply of young shoots to cover every 
part in due proportion. Where they grow too 
thick, the weakest must be removed, and if 
more shoots are wanted than are produced, 
the young ones are to be " topped" as they 
progress, to cause them to produce others. It 
is generally necessary to attend most parti- 
cularly to training a supply of the branches 
downwards, the lower parts being generally 
the worst furnished, unless this is constantly 
attended to. 
Propagation is effected by cuttings planted 
in sand, placed in a gentle hot-bed, covered 
with a bell glass. The young plants when 
rooted require to be very carefully transferred 
to small separate pots, and are the better for 
being grown on for a period with the assist- 
ance of bottom heat. They ought also to be 
grown in rather lighter compost than the 
older plants. 
BOTANICAL TEEMS, 
CHIEFLY APPLIED TO THE FLOWER. 
Acicula ; a term applied to the peduncle or 
rachis, when it is very slender, resembling a 
bristle, as in some of the single flowered 
spikelets of grasses. 
Adelphia ; a term applied to a group of 
filaments when connected at the base into a 
bundle, called a brotherhood: some of the 
Linnrean classes are founded on this peculiarity; 
thus — Diadelphia means two such groups, or 
brotherhoods ; Monadelphia, one group, &c. 
Adglutinated ; applied to filaments and 
anthers when glued or united to other parts of 
the flower. 
Adnate (adnatus) ; when the anther is at- 
tached to the filaments by its back. 
Estivation; the manner in which the dif- 
ferent parts of the flower are folded before 
opening ; analogous to vernation in leaves. 
Alee; the wings, or lateral segments of a 
papilionaceous (butterfly-shaped) flower. 
Alabastrus; a term applied to the flower 
when in the state of a bud. 
Amentum ; a catkin, that is, when the 
flowers are arranged in spikes, but are desti- 
tute of calyx and corolla, whose place is taken 
by bracts, and when the whole inflorescence 
falls off in a single piece, either after flower- 
ing or when the seed is ripe. 
Amphanthium ; a term formerly applied 
to the receptacle, when it is not fleshy nor 
