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course of a month, and then they may receive a rather more 
liberal supply of water to bring out the blossom vigorously; and 
when their beauty is past, let them sink again into a dormancy 
which should last through the winter. 
The later plants will require similar treatment, and the absence 
of sun-liglit to ripen the last must be compensated for by an 
entire withholding of water. It will be found in the second and 
subsequent years of the plant’s progress, that some support is 
required for the branches of such as are potted : to our taste, the 
neatest mode is to train them on a cylinder made of copper wire; 
those usually employed of iron wire are objectionable, because the 
humidity to which they are subject speedily rots the paint, and 
the metal corrodes, to the great injury of every part of the plant 
coming in contact with it. Some of the smallest species, as 
JBoschianus, radicans, and Horsfieldii , may be grown in baskets, 
and have a graceful appearance when their branches hang equally 
all round : indeed the whole will succeed in this way, or attached 
to blocks of wood, having moss tied round their roots and sus¬ 
pended from the roof; they are thus seen in the most natural 
manner, but from the rapidity with which some of the larger kinds 
grow, an objectionable looseness becomes apparent, to remedy which 
it is necessary to cut back large plants, and thus fine specimens 
are not attainable. As a verdant covering for the walls of stoves 
and orchid houses, they are very desirable ; though in such a 
position we must not expect so abundant a display of blossoms, 
because the amount of moisture received is not easily regulated : 
their appearance scrambling over rockwork in such erections is 
also very pleasing, and imparts the best idea of their beauty in a 
wild state. 
The following is a summary of the genus as at present known, 
taking them in chronological order, the first recorded introduc¬ 
tion occurred in 1837 from Khoseea, when 
JE. ramosissimus was made known to us. This appears to be 
identical with what is called in gardens and the Bot. Beg. macu- 
latus : the stem and branches are marked with lurid blotches; 
leaves oblong acute, from two to three inches in length ; flowers 
yellow and dull scarlet, about two inches long, seldom more than 
four or five together; plant very much branched. 
JE. grandiflorus, syn. parasiticus, Wallich ; Incarvillia para- 
