. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Greenhouse shrubs of many species, in trop-ical Amer. Some of them have a climbing habit. Thetubular fls. are in axillary or terminal cymes, red, yellow,greenish or white, often very fragrant. Lvs. alternateand entire, usually rather narrow. Fruit a berry. Oes-trums are among the most useful of bri
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Greenhouse shrubs of many species, in trop-ical Amer. Some of them have a climbing habit. Thetubular fls. are in axillary or terminal cymes, red, yellow,greenish or white, often very fragrant. Lvs. alternateand entire, usually rather narrow. Fruit a berry. Oes-trums are among the most useful of bright-flowering,shrubby, greenhouse plants, and they may be growneither as pot plants, or planted out against the back wallor supports of a greenhouse, where, if given a light po-sition, they will produce an abundance of flowers fromJanuary to April. The Mexican species will do well Ina winter temperature of 45° to 50°, but the species fromCentral America require stove temperature. They arepropagated bv cuttings taken in February or early inMarch, and inserted in sand in a warm temperature,keeping them somewhat close until rooted, when theyshould be potted in a light soil, after which they may begrown in pots, shifting on as often as required, or planted CHAM^BATIA 285. 416. Cestrum elegans (X ii out m the opt n gioumposition wli. 1 it 1mgrowth and iTtt nti tifineplant^- I \ tli, tu-be hfted 111 1 p tti 1and shadi d t i i U w in die h 1 111 1 li„lit, ink -oil and k. pt iloset. ^^ .1 IN - Hid then transfeued to their\tti 1 ll(.wering, the plants should hegiven a rt-^t 1 i i in iiili ni six weeks, gradually reducingthe supph t w iti 1 t ? induce the leaves and wood toripen, attn whn h the\ should be cut well back, the oldsoil shaken oil and the routs trimmed back, and theneither pottid again or planted out for the summer Whilein the gieenhouse, Oestrums aie very subject to theattacks of insects, especialU the meah bug (Coccusadoiiidum ) To keep these m check thej should be give
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