Plate 260. 
BOUGAINVILLEA LATEBITIA. 
There has not been a greater sensation in the horticultural 
world than that produced some four or five years ago by 
Mr. Daniels, gardener to the Ley. C. E. Luck Keene, at 
Swyncombe House, near Henley-on-Thames, when he exhibited 
some sprays of the beautiful Bougainvillaea speciosa , loaded with 
its light magenta-coloured bracts, as, although that plant was a 
well-known one, it had not been so grown as to produce in 
any degree of profusion its flowers, and had consequently been 
but little thought of; we shall not readily forget the naive 
question of an enthusiastic lover of the modern style of garden- 
. ing, when it was first exhibited at the Loyal Botanic Society,*— 
“ Will it do for bedding-out T Happily all lovers of plants 
have not their ideas bounded by the modern parterre , and hence 
it has become largely grown and valued. 
The treatment adopted by Mr. Daniels, and which was then 
considered the only one by which the plants could be induced 
to flower, was, to use his own language, “towards the end 
of January to plunge it in the driest and hottest part of the 
house, to give water sparingly for the first month, afterwards 
more frequently, and towards the end or February or be¬ 
ginning of March, it will begin to unfold its charms; it must 
have all the light and sun that can be given it while in 
bloom, or the colour will be found to be very faint. The 
large plant here is growing with its roots close to the boiler, 
which projects through to the inside of the house, this made 
the end of the house so hot that any other plant placed 
near it was destroyed with insect, as spider, scale, etc.; but 
it is a great recommendation to Bougainvillaea to say that no 
insect except green-fly touches it. I believe too much dry heat 
