1877.] 
WINTER-FLOWERING EUFATORIUMS. 
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In offering a few remarks upon tlieir cultivation, I sliall take them in the 
order of their blooming. Eupatorium Berlandieri^ which is the first to bloom in 
autumn, has a somewhat slender habit of growth, with thin, heart-shaped, slightly 
serrated leaves, requiring a little more care in cultivation and general management 
than cither of the others herein referred to. Any extra care is, however, amply 
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rewarded by the extreme fragrance of the abundant flowers, which is so powerful 
as to be at once manifest even when a couple of plants only are present in a large 
conservatory. This plant flourishes best during the blooming period in a warm 
Fig. 1. Eupatoridm Bbrlandibri ; 2. E. ltgustrinum. 
greenhouse temperature, which insures more perfect development, as it is some¬ 
what liable to lose a portion of its wiry shoots when subjected during dull 
weather to the atmosphere of a cool greenhouse. 
A suitable soil in which to grow this Evpaiorinm may consist of two parts 
turfy loam to one of peat and leaf-mould, adding sand and charcoal to secure 
porosity. To obtain good-sized flowering plants the first year, cuttings should 
be struck as early in the season as possible, and pushed forward in a brisk grow- 
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