Plate 809 . 
DIPLADENIA AMABILIS. 
The species of Dipladenia already in growth are well known 
for their great beauty, freedom of dowering, and for the facility 
with which they form good plants for exhibition purposes, so 
that in most collections of stove and greenhouse plants, either 
D. splendens , crcissinoda , or Houtteana are to be seen ; that which 
we now figure under the name of Dipladenia amabilis will be 
found equally valuable for either the decoration of the stove or 
for exhibition. 
The Dipladenias are stove shrubs of climbing character, and 
grow and flower freely under the following treatment:—pot 
them in a compost composed of turfy loam and peat in about 
equal proportions, and with some pieces of charcoal about two 
inches square; during the early part of the year they should 
be encouraged to grow in a moist stove freely exposed to light; 
they will afterwards form a second growth, and should then be 
placed in a drier and cooler place in the stove; if it is required 
to grow them for exhibition, they should be shifted into large 
pots, plunged in the tan-bed, and their growth greatly encou¬ 
raged ; the wood should be very frequently stopped, so as to 
encourage a bushy habit; when they have done flowering and 
made their growth, they should be removed to a cooler position 
(an intermediate house would answer), and more fully exposed 
to the influence of the light of the sun; the wood will be thus 
ripened, and be in a better condition for the next season's 
growth. 
Dipladenia amabilis has been frequently exhibited during 
the past season by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, of York, and 
