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and  the  foliage  had  reached  much  greater  dimenaions,  the  fiowera  in 
addition  being  considerably  more  numerous.  Messrs.  Veitch  sowed  their 
seeds  in  January  to  produce  plants  for  seed>bearing,  whereas  the  others 
were  fropa  seeds  sown  in  February,  1895  and  had  been  grown  solely  for 
decorative  purposes. 
are  kept  through  the  winter  they  will  bloom  with  the  utmostjprofusion 
in  the  following  summer.  Seeds  can  be  sown  at  various  times  to  insure 
plants  in  flower  over  an  extended  period,  and  the  display  that  can  readily 
be  made  is  ample  recompense  for  the  time  and  trouble  bestowed  on  the 
stock.  As  illustrative  of  the  size  and  variations  in  the  flowers  we  give 
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Fm.  62.— HYBRID  STEBPTOCARPUS. 
As  has  been  said  the  culture  of  these  plants  is  of  the  simplest.  If 
feeds  are  sown  in  January  or  February  in  a  warm  greenhouse,  the 
resulting  plants  being  given  every  necessary  care,  flowers  will  be  pro- 
■duced  in  fair  numbers  during  August  and  September,  while  if  the  plants 
the  woodcut  (fig.  62)  drawn  from  specimens  of  the  Chelsea  strain ; 
and  good  though  these  indisputably  are,  they  cannot  be  regarded  as  the 
utmost  limit  to  which  the  skill  of  such  expert  hybridists  as  Mr.  John 
Heal  will  take  us  amongst  the  hybrid  Streptocarpuses. — ZiNGAEl. 
