. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON STOVE PLANTS. 647 to be kept dry during the resting season. Propagation is readily effected by cuttings and by seeds. The latter, being extremely minute, must not be covered with soil as is customary in sowing most seeds. Have the finely-sifted compost made level about ^in. below the top of the pot, watered with a fine rose, and left for a short time to drain. Then sprinkle the seed thinly and evenly all over the surface, cover the pot with a pane of glass, and shade with a piece of paper till germination takes pl
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON STOVE PLANTS. 647 to be kept dry during the resting season. Propagation is readily effected by cuttings and by seeds. The latter, being extremely minute, must not be covered with soil as is customary in sowing most seeds. Have the finely-sifted compost made level about ^in. below the top of the pot, watered with a fine rose, and left for a short time to drain. Then sprinkle the seed thinly and evenly all over the surface, cover the pot with a pane of glass, and shade with a piece of paper till germination takes place; gradu- ally inure the young seedlings to light and air, and prick out into pans or boxes as soon as big enough to handle, continuing to shade from bright sunshine. Some kinds, such as B. socotrana, produce bulbils at the base of the main stem; these may be detached, and grown on to form plants. BURBIDGEA NI- tida.âThis beau- tiful plant (Fig. 418) was discovered in North-west Borneo by Mr. F. W. Bur- bidge, It is a stove herbaceous perennial allied to Hedychium, with brilliant orange- scarlet flowers in terminal panicles. It grows freely in a compost of equal â parts fibrous loam, peat, and leaf- mould, with a little coarse silver-sand, and is readily pro- pagated by division in spring. Burchellia capensis, an evergreen shrub from the Cape of Good Hope, produces hand'some clusters of scarlet flowers. Pro- pagate by cuttings, and grow in equal parts peat, loam, leaf- mould, and sand, in a cool part of the stove. Centropogon Lucyanus is a garden hybrid of French origin, and being of a somewhat procumbent habit is well suited for growing in a hanging-basket. Cuttings taken off with a heel root readily, and the plants thrive in fibrous loam, leaf-mould, and sand. It produces its pretty rosy-carmine tubular flowers very freely in mid-winter, which makes it an especially desirable FIG. 418.â Please note that these images are extracted from scan
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