. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GREEN-HOUSE TLANTS. 357 It. Taylori.—Heads of bloom very large ; flowers tubular, tube white, the spreading- limb brilliant pink; hybrid. R. Veitchianum.—Flowers large, with crisp mar- gin, pm"e white, with pale yellow markings at the base. Mountains of Moulmoin. R. Veitchianum Icevigatum. — The counterpart of the preceding, but in- stead of the beau- tiful crisp edges, they are plain in this plant. Moun- tains of Moulmein. Richardia. — These plants are very showy; better known perhaps by the old name of Calla. Amongst amateurs they will be more f
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GREEN-HOUSE TLANTS. 357 It. Taylori.—Heads of bloom very large ; flowers tubular, tube white, the spreading- limb brilliant pink; hybrid. R. Veitchianum.—Flowers large, with crisp mar- gin, pm"e white, with pale yellow markings at the base. Mountains of Moulmoin. R. Veitchianum Icevigatum. — The counterpart of the preceding, but in- stead of the beau- tiful crisp edges, they are plain in this plant. Moun- tains of Moulmein. Richardia. — These plants are very showy; better known perhaps by the old name of Calla. Amongst amateurs they will be more familiar as the Arum Lilij, Nile Lily, Trumpet Lily, &c., the last name being very characteristic, al- though they do not belong to the Lily famil}'. The genus bears the name of a celebrated French botanist, and be- longs to the order Aracece. They soon make large mas- sive specimens if all the giowths are left on them; but when confined to single stems, they produce the finest spathes, and in this condition are best adapted for window plants, or indeed any kind of in-door decoration. After flowering, Richardias lose their leaves, and lie dormant for some time. In the autumn they commence'to show signs of returning life, when they should be re-potted in good rich loam and well-decayed manure, and be Hberally supplied with water. Treated in this manner, they will grow. Rhododendron jasminiflorum. vigorously, and produce their large trumpet-shaped spathes in the spring and early summer months. R. (Bthiopica.—A bold-growing herbaceous plant, producing from its fleshy corm, large sagittate cordate leaves, which, together with the long clasping petioles on which they are borne, are of a uniform bright green. The plant is indebted for its beauty to the large fleshy, pure white, trumpet - shaped spathe which siir- rounds the flowers, and not, as is the usual case, to the flower itself. It is a native of swampy places from Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope. R. albo-maculata.
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