weather; but, Jike all this class, during the early months, a 
warm temperature with moisture is essential to rapid growth. 
It thrives also with the same treatment required for Pleroma 
elegans , Genetyllis , and kindred plants. We find it quite at home 
on the swing-shelf in the greenhouse during the winter months ; 
and doubtless this is the most suitable place at that season for 
the whole class referred to above. 
“ Cuttings inserted in peat and sand under a bell-glass, and 
plunged in moderate bottom-heat or in a small frame, will 
root in two or three weeks; if struck now (March), and potted 
off in a compost of two-thirds peat, one-sixth loam, and one- 
sixth leaf-mould, into thumb pots, replunging them in heat 
till well established, and then given another shift, using the 
soil coarser and richer each time with less heat as the plant 
advances, so as to keep it compact, they will thrive admir¬ 
ably. 
“ By pursuing this treatment, and a little stopping when re¬ 
quired, a fine plant may be grown by the end of August, when 
the plant should gradually be exposed to a drier atmosphere, 
for the purpose of ripening the wood, and thus securing a fine 
spring-bloom. This part of the process requires care, for the 
leaves may fall off, and thus spoil the plant. 
“We consider this variety by far the best yet introduced; 
even late and small plants struck last August having dowered 
with us this spring; indeed, they were the very plants exhi¬ 
bited by us at the Royal Horticultural Show in February.” 
It remains for us but to add that we think it will make a 
most desirable spring-dowering plant, the pretty mauve-co¬ 
loured blossoms being produced in great profusion, and the 
curious barbed stamens giving it a very distinct appearance; 
while, as a dwarf-growing plant for a pan or basket, it will, we 
think, be much esteemed. 
