February i, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
Angelonia salicariaef olia. Maclaren and Sons. 
A considerable number of species of 
Angelonia are known to science, but as 
they are mostly natives of warm countries, 
growers cannot spare the room for them 
at the present day in their greenhouses, 
owing to the popularity of various other 
types of plant. A few of them are nearly 
hardy, however, and can be grown in the 
open air in summer, and therefore find a 
welcome amongst those who like types of 
flower by way of novelty or a change. 
The subject of this note is a plant vary¬ 
ing from 18 in. to 2 ft. in height, and ter¬ 
minates in a long leafy raceme to each 
stem. The leaves are narrowly lance¬ 
shaped, "about 3 in., long and opposite, so 
that they have been aptly compared to 
those of the Loosestrife which grows on 
our river banks. The flowers are of quite 
a different type, however, and the plant 
indeed belongs to the order containing the 
Mulleins or Yerbascum and Celsia arc- 
turus, which is popular as a greenhouse 
plant. . The flowers are, however, dif¬ 
ferent in colour, being purple, with a 
conspicuous yellow spot fading to cream 
on the lower lip. It is, therefore, alto¬ 
gether different in colour from the well- 
known Celsia, while the stems are much 
more graceful. 
The plant may be treated like a half- 
hardy annual by sowing seeds in heat 
early in March and pricking off the seed¬ 
lings into boxes about 3 in. deep as 
soon as they have made the first pair 
of rough leaves. The boxes can still be 
kept in a warm place till the seedlings 
are established in the fresh soil and grow¬ 
ing, after which they may be transferred 
to a cold frame, provided the weather by 
The flchimenes. 
V_Beautiful 
Conservatory 
Plants. 
This beautiful and effective free-flower¬ 
ing nlant is verv useful for the decoration 
of the conservatory in summer. 
It should be started into growth at the 
beginning of March in pans filled to 
within one and a half inches of the rim 
with fine sandy soil. Place the tubers 
one inch apart and cover them with a 
sprinkling of soil, and then remove to a 
stove with a temperature of from 65 to 
70 degs. When about two inches high 
they should be potted in a good compost 
of three parts good fibrous loam, two 
parts leaf mould, and a little sand, and 
transferred to a warm house and placed 
on a shelf near the glass, where they will 
get plenty of light and be well attended 
to as regards watering. 
When the shoots are six or seven inches 
long, pinch out the heads, which will in¬ 
duce branching. Give manure water 
twice a week when they show signs of 
flowering, and harden them off a bit so 
that they can be transferred to the con¬ 
servatory, where they will do without ar¬ 
tificial heat. Care must be taken not to 
expose them to cold draughts. They are 
very effective and seen to their best ad¬ 
vantage when suspended from the roof in 
a wire basket, which should be lined 
with sphagnum, a few of the plants be¬ 
ing allowed to grow through the sides of 
the basket. 
They multiply rnost abundantly them¬ 
selves by their worm-like scale-clothed 
tubers. To keep them during winter, let 
the tops die off and leave them in their 
pots, as they keep far better this way 
and flower better the following summer 
than stored otherwise. But where space 
is limited they may be stored in sand and 
left in a temperature of 50 degs. There 
are numerous varieties of this plant. A 
few of the best being as follows:—Coc- 
cinea, Lady Lyttelton, and Splendens 
(scarlet); Masterpiece and Admiration 
(purple); Margarita and alba maxima 
(white); Celestial (mauve); Aurora (red), 
and Longiflora (blue). 
Thos. Daniels. 
The 
Lioosestfife-Lteaved Angelonia 
(Angelonia salicariaefolia) 
that time is getting fairly warm during 
the day. The frame may be kept nearly 
closed to economise sun-heat, although in 
bright weather a litftle air given by tilt¬ 
ing up the sash at the back will be of 
great benefit to the seedlings. The frame 
can be closed again as soon as the sun 
gets low in the afternoon. Towards the 
end of May they may be hardened off 
and planted in the open air about the 
beginning of June. After that they will 
require little attention, except keeping 
clean until the stems commence to push 
up for flowering, when a neat stick may 
be given to each. Our illustration was 
prepared from a photograph of a little 
group of plants in the open air at Kew. 
