294 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 8, 1859. 
specimens are required, shift often, and prevent the roots 
getting pot-bound, until you have them large enough to 
flower. These and Calceolarias will make any house very 
gay for several months in the spring of the year. 
Cliantiius ruNiCEUS. —Treat this beautiful plant as 
you would an Acacia. The red spider is a great enemy 
to it. It will uot bloom until the second or third year. 
Clintonia pulchella (a beautiful trailing annual).— 
Sow under a square of glass, and, if kept in-doors, let it 
have room to ramble, and plenty of free air. It is beau¬ 
tiful, hanging round a basket or vase. 
Cyclamens. —Sow as soon as you can get the seed. 
If they do not die down the first autumn, let them grow 
on slowly ; and plant them separately the next season, 
when some may bloom, but all will likely rest in summer. 
When they begin to push again, they will generally show 
their flowers. 
Datura cekatocaulon. —This will require to be sown 
in the house, and will form a fine feature there in the 
summer months, though it n il! thrive in a good warm 
place out of doors. 
Coeonilla glauca. —An old favourite yellow-flowering 
shrub. Treat as Acacia, steeping the seeds before sowing 
them. 
Humea elegans. —Sow in May, in fine soil, in a glass- 
case, and cover the pot with a square of glass. Prick off 
carefully when up, repot separately, keep in a warm 
place in the greenhouse all winter, repot in spring, and, 
either in the house or out of doors, you will have graceful 
objects in summer and autumn. 
Ipomopsis elegans. —A miffy plant, bad to manage. 
Pest sown in a cool place in August, potted off, and kept 
in an airy part of the greenhouse, and rather dry in 
winter, when it will bloom in spring and early summer. 
Isotoma axillaris. —A pretty, small, light blue an 
nual, that, sown in March, will bloom in summer and 
autumn. 
Fuchsias. —These should have been mentioned above. 
Many of them come nearly true to the varieties, but you 
will be sure to have much diversity. Many, if kept in 
little space at the roots, will show bloom the first season, 
and the plants, when done growing, may be safely kept 
anywhere free from frost. 
Ixia. —A class of bulbs that are easily raised from 
seed. Many will bloom the second season. 
Kennedya MarryatTjE, and many others. — Seeds 
should be soaked as for Acacias. Water used afterwards, 
if any, to be warm, before the seedlings appear. Heath 
soil and loam suit them. 
Linum grandiflorum. — Soak and wash the seeds 
before sowing. When seedlings are up, prick off care¬ 
fully, and either grow in an airy greenhouse, or plant in 
an open place out of doors. 
Lobelia. —All the larger kinds will bloom the second 
year, and many in the first, if the seeds are sown in 
beat. All the low-growing, trailing sorts will bloom a 
few months after sowing. Sow in March, hardly covered, 
but a square of glass, shaded, put over the pots. The 
seedlings will soon want thinning, and will flower 
profusely, either in-doors, or in a border. If sown in 
August, and kept in small pots, they will bloom all the 
winter in a greenhouse; and so will spring-struck and 
spring-sown ones, if kept stubby, and in little space for 
growth. 
Lophospermum Hendersonii, speciabilis, &c.—Free- 
growing climbers. Seedlings the first season do not bloom 
so freely as plants raised from cuttings. Plants, either 
struck in autumn, or well shortened back, will bloom 
freely the following season, oither in a cool house or 
out of doors. 
Lachbnalia. —These pretty little bulbs, that bloom so 
irccly in spring and summer, generally flower in the 
second and third season after seed sowing. 
Maurandya (purple, rose, pink,'&c.).—Sown in March 
will bloom in autumn. Pruned back before winter, and 
secured from frost, they will bloom freely in spring and 
summer. 
Mesembryanthemum pomeridianum, tricolor, gla- 
brum, &c. (pretty succulents). — Pricked out in well- 
drained, sandy, limy, rubbishy soil, will be very attractive 
in summer and autumn. Close to the glass, when the 
sun shines especially. 
Mignonette. — Sow in August and September, for 
spring flowering, and in March and April for fine speci¬ 
mens for summer and autumn. 
Mimulus (florists’ varieties), Music. —Sow in spring, 
for summer and autumn blooming. Sow in autumn, or 
take cuttings of good kinds, to bloom in spring and early 
summer* When growing freely, treat them as half 
aquatics. Keep from much frost, but, unless very cold, 
give plenty of air. 
Myrtles.- —The seed sometimes lies a good while before 
vegetating. The seed ripens freely out of doors in the 
southern counties. 
Nemophila insignis. — Sown in the beginning of 
September, and kept from frost, and much heat in winter, 
this forms a beautiful trailer, in a cool house in the spring 
months. 
Nierembergia (of sorts).—Beautiful, delicate things. 
Ornithogalums. —Pretty little bulbs, that will bloom 
early the second season, from seed. 
Oxalis rosea, &c.—May bo treated in a similar manner. 
Passiflora czerulea, &c. —Treat as for Acacia seed ; 
but, if there is no hotbed, defer sowing until May. The 
plants may be expected to bloom the third season. 
Pelargoniums (florists’ kinds), Scarlet Geraniums .— 
The treatment has often been given. Keep the plants in 
small pots, and with only one shoot, until they show 
bloom, and then select the best. Cut down when ripe, 
and grow as for approved kinds. 
Petunias. —These will all bloom the current year, and 
cuttings from the best may be taken as soon as proved. 
Plants, kept over the winter, will bloom from March and 
April, onwards. 
Portulacas (a great variety). — Sow in April, and 
keep moderately warm; and either near the glass in a 
house, or on a dry, gravelly bed, in an exposed place, they 
will form striking features on sunny days in summer. 
Phlox Hrummondi. —The best varieties of this, sown 
in March and April, pricked off, and potted separately, 
make a fine appearance in a cool, airy house, in the 
autumn. 
Primula sinensis (different varieties).—Sow in April, 
prick off, pot separately, and keep rather shaded in 
summer. These will bloom all the winter. Others, sown 
in July and August, will bloom freely all the spring, and 
the beginning of summer. 
Khodanthe Manglesii (a pretty annual). — Sow in 
April. Prick off at once into flowering pots, in rich 
heath soil, and fibry loam, as the roots do not like much 
moving. 
Salpiglossis. — Fitter, perhaps, for growing out of 
doors, after the end of May, than remaining in the house. 
Salvias would do better from cuttings than from seed, 
with the exception, perhaps, of Salvia patens, the beau¬ 
tiful blue. 
Schizanthus (of sorts). — Sown now, will bloom in 
summer and autumn. Sown in August, and pricked off 
and potted, they will make gorgeous plants in spring and 
summer. 
Sparaxis. — Treat as for Ixia, &c. 
Sollya heterophylla. — Seedlings of this pretty 
blue-flowering, climbing shrub may be expected to bloom 
in the second and third year. 
SparmanniaAfricana. — A rough-looking old favourite 
plant. Seedlings will be some time in blooming. 
TkoPjEOLUm trieolorum and pentaphyllum. —Seeds will 
not bloom until the second season, at the nearest; after 
that, to be treated as old tubers. BracTiycevas, Jarrattii, 
and Moritsianum may be treated in a similar manner. 
