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THE GARDENING WORLD . 
May 23, 1903. 
additional moisture will be required until the new growth gets 
well away from the base and the roots have got away into the 
potting compost. 
It should always be borne in. mind that wherever leaf-soil 
is used in the potting compost, great care is necessary when 
watering. Spraying or watering with the aid of a rose on the 
can will be found abundant.; so long as the sphagnum on the 
surface is kept alive it will be all that will be necessary. The 
plants should be kept shaded from too bright light., or they 
will lose a. quantity of the foliage on the imported bulbs. The. 
light may be gradually increased as the season gets on. A 
temperature of not less than 65 deg. should be maintained at 
night during the time the plants are in an active state. 
H. J. 
The Stove and Greenhouse. 
Epacrises and Ericas. —These hard-wooded greenhouse 
plants are not now soi extensively grown as they once were; 
nevertheless; they are still favourites with some, and deservedly 
so. As the plants go> out of flower, re-pot or top-dress as 
thought necessary, and place in, a buoyant temperature of about 
55 deg. until new growth is well advanced, when they should 
be gradually hardened and placed in a sunny spot in the open 
Co ripen their growth. The potting compost should consist 
of peat, and sand only. Pot firmly with a potting stick, and 
avoid giving a. large shift at one time, or the soil will become 
sour before the hair-like roots can permeate it. Efficient 
drainage and clean pots, coupled with great, care in applying 
water at all times, are absolutely essential to success in, the 
cultivation of these plants. 
Kalanchoe flammea. —This is a new species, and may he 
classed as a stove or greenhouse shrub. As its specific name 
implies; it bears flowers of great brilliancy, and of a scarlet, 
hue, and is easy of culture. If not already sown, a packet of 
seed should be procured, and this will produce abundance of 
nice young plants for flowering in autumn. The seed, being 
very small, should be sown on the surface of finely-sifted light 
soil and not covered. Place a sheet of glass on the receptacle, 
and keep shaded, when, germination will quickly take place. 
The seedlings should then, be potted into thumb pots singly, 
and grown on in a genial warmth. A sojourn in the cool 
greenhouse or conservatory will not harm the plants when 
nearly full grown and showing blossom. 
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine and its congeners are de>- 
servedly popular plants. The method of increasing the stock 
is by cuttings of the young shoots that rise from the base of 
the old plants, and by leaves inserted in like manner to the 
Eex type of Begonia,. The best time to insert, them is in March, 
in order that they may have a long season of growth, but if 
for any reason sufficient have not yet been put in, it is not too 
late to perform the work, provided the cuttings have not 
become drawn and spindly. Rooted cuttings should be potted 
on as soon as the small pots are filled with roots, and kept 
growing unchecked. Do 1 not stop any of the shoots, but allow 
the plant to grow naturally. When grown in baskets this 
Begonia is unsurpassed, and again in this case the leader 
must be neatly tied to a small stake; then allow the side 
shoots to depend a,t will. 
Fuchsias. -— W e have no greenhouse plant that is more easy 
to grow or that is of greater utility than the Fuchsia. Quick, 
unchecked growth is necessary to ensure large, well-flowered 
plants in the shortest possible time. Cuttings emit roots 
readily a,t this time, and if patted off singly immediately, and 
grown, in a, moist temperature of about 60 deg., they soon make 
strong plants to flower in late summer and autumn. 
A compost I invariably find admirably suited consists of 
equal parts loam, leaf-soil, and well-decayed cow-manure, broken 
small, adding plenty of sand and a little hone-meal. Tie the 
leading growth to a. stake early in the plant’s growth, and pinch 
out the points of all side shoots as they attain 4 in. in length. 
The pyramidal form is the best mode of training. K. M. 
The Best Flowering Plants at Kew. 
“ There are more plants in the garden than ye wot of.” 
Sinningia speciosa. 
The garden forms of this species, popularly known a: 
Gloxinias, are amongst the most beautiful of summer-flowerinc 
stove plants, where the pure vivid colour of their flowers an 
effective, specially so when a judicious mixture of plants pos 
sessing light graceful foliage, as Adiantum cuneatum and Coco, 
weddeliana, are employed in their arrangement. The erec 
flowering forms, now so prevalent, were derived from a gardei 
sport of obscure origin; the original type possessed flowers o 
deflexed or drooping habit. Native of Brazil. 
Swainsona coronillifolia (syn. galegifolia). 
As a basket plant, trained to a pillar or against a wall, this 
profuse flowering legume is both attractive and useful. Beiru 
a soft-wooded plant of easy culture, it, and especially the white 
flowered variety, are of commercial value, by reason of the 
graceful habit of their inflorescence, which gives an artistic 
effect to- all cut-flower arrangements. An erect herb, with impari 
pinnate leaves about 5 in. long, of six to ten obtuse leaflets. 
The racemes are axillary of four' to seven carmine-coloured Pea 
shaped flowers on a peduncle 4 in. to- 6 in. long. Native of S. 
Australia. 
Cantua buxifolia (syn. dependent). 
A very pretty greenhouse climber, luxuriating under the 
same conditions as Fuchsias, resembling them in forming useful 
pot plants, especially when trained on balloon-formed wire 
shapes. Its leaves, as its name implies, usually in shape re¬ 
semble those of the Box, but have a tendency to become lobed, 
whilst the freely-produced flowers are tubular, with a crimson 
tube 4 in. long and a rose-coloured lobed spreading limb. 
Native of Peru. 
Rhododendron indicum (syn. Azalea indica). 
The " Indian Azaleas ” of our greenhouses are too 1 deserv- 
ingly popular inmates thereof tc be omitted from this category. 
As specimens for exhibition, small plants for house and window 
decoration, or for furnishing material for the formation of 
wreaths, houquet-s, etc., they are equally serviceable, having 
few compeers. Though essentially greenhouse plants; such 
varieties as amoenum (A. amoena), balsaminaeflcrum (A. bal- 
saminaeflora, syn, rosaeflora), calyeiflora, etc., give satisfaction 
out of doors in favoured localities. Introduced in the begin¬ 
ning of last century, the improvement effected in the size and 
colour of their flowers are optical illustrations of the florists’ 
art. The genus Azalea, to which it formerly belonged, was 
chiefly founded on its possession of five stamens, as opposed to 
ten in Rhododendron, under which it is now included, since 
more recent introductions show gradations between those 
points of demarcation. Native of China and Japan. 
Grevillea thelemanniana (syn. Preissei). 
Irrespective of the beauty of its flowers this species forms 
a highly ornamental foliage plant, in which capacity it forms a 
pleasing variety to' a collection of greenhouse plants. Its leaves 
are elegantly cut into veiy fine narrow segments, and have a 
brilliant green colour. It is of free branchiug habit; each 
shoot is terminated by a deuse whorled raceme of slightly 
hairy 7 , rosy-pink flowers, tipped green. Native of Australia, 
Wistaria chinensis (syn. Glycine chinensis). 
One of the most popular of spring-flowering climbers, and 
deservedly so, for, trained to the walls of dwellings, its large 
racemes of purplish-lilac flowers on pendulous peduncles, con¬ 
trasting with the light green expanding leaves, form a picture 
of colour, combined with artistic tone and grace. Its varieties, 
alba, flore pleno, and foliis variegatis, have never become so 
popular as the type. Native of China, 
Berberis stenophylla. 
A hybrid between Darwinii and empetrifolia, resembling the 
former in its floriferousness, the latter in its leaves, whose 
value as a. flowering shrub is acknowledged by its popularity. 
