. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON STOVE PLANTS. 665 These plants are readily propagated by cuttings in spring, and thrive in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. Alocasia.—Handsome foliage plants, with often bronzy or variegated, and generally peltate leaves ; these when well grown have a noble appearance. Use as compost two parts very fibrous peat, broken into lumps (discarding most of the fine dusty portion), and one part of live sphagnum, with a little fibrous loam and silver-sand. Put an extra quantity of drainage material in the pots, arid rais
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Horticulture. ON STOVE PLANTS. 665 These plants are readily propagated by cuttings in spring, and thrive in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. Alocasia.—Handsome foliage plants, with often bronzy or variegated, and generally peltate leaves ; these when well grown have a noble appearance. Use as compost two parts very fibrous peat, broken into lumps (discarding most of the fine dusty portion), and one part of live sphagnum, with a little fibrous loam and silver-sand. Put an extra quantity of drainage material in the pots, arid raise the crown of the plants on a mound above the rim. Make the compost just firm, but not hard, and place the plants in a warm, moist, shady part of the house. Apply water freely when in full growth, but rather sparingly during the resting period. Alocasias may be propagated by dividing the rhizomes in spring. A. Tenningsii is a free, dwarf-growing, prettily-marked species from India; in habit it more resembles a Caladium than. Fig. 431.—Alocasia Lowii. any of the following named sorts: A. Lowii, from Borneo (Fig. 431) has large handsome dark green leaves, veined with white. A. macrorhiza variegata, a robust, free-growing species from Ceylon, has large, somewhat heart-shaped leaves, blotched and marbled with white, and with striped leaf-stalks. A. metallica [A. cupred) produces bronzy peltate leaves i2in. to i8in. long, resembling highly-polished metal shields; a native of Borneo. A. Sedeni is a hybrid variety obtained by crossing A. metallica with A. Lowii, and in which the characters of the parents can be distinctly traced, the leaves being bronzy-green, with ivory white veins on the upper surface and purple Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Drury, William D. , 1857-1928; Abbott,
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