JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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during winter where the temperature does not ("all below 35° to 
40°. During winter little water will be necessary, but it must not 
be entirely withheld. In spring they can be assisted with a gentle 
heat if convenient. But even this is not absolutely necessary. The 
plants here are only subject to a greenhouse temperature all the 
year, and flower profusely about July. When the pots are full of 
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roots and the plants are growing, stimulants may be given with 
advantage, as well as liberal applications of water. 
The soil most suitable is good fibry loam and pe?.t in equal pro¬ 
portions, wdth a few pieces of broken charcoal and plenty of coarse 
sand. I am confident if amateurs will only give these plants a 
trial they will not be disappointed with the results. 
Blandfordia nobilis has rich orange-coloured flowers shading to 
yellow at the edge. B. aurea has golden yellow flowers ; and 
B. Cunninghamii, which .is a very beautiful variety, has flowers 
of rich coppery red, while the upper portion is yellowish green. 
B. princeps I have not yet flowered, but am informed it is a very 
fine species.—W. Bardney. 
[Blandfordia princeps (represented in fig. 21, a block kindly 
lent us by Mr. W. Bull), is very handsome, and is thus described 
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by the introducer—“ This strikingly handsome greenhouse per¬ 
ennial gained the firs prize as the best new flowering greenhouse 
plant at the Boyal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition in the 
summer of 1875. The stiff, sub-erect, distichous leaves are 
narrowly linear, five to eight-ribbed, and with a serrulate border. 
The scape is a foot high, bearing a corymb of many flowers, 
which are 2 j inches long, pendent, regularly funnel-shaped, with 
a brigh crimson tube, and deep golden yellow erect limb. It 
