. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GEEEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 51 a mulching or surfacing of leaf-soil, decayed ma- nure, or cocoa-fibre refuse (this last the neatest), which prevents cracking of the soil, and renders it unnecessary to water so frequently, though when this is done it should be tho- roughly, and not in daily driblets. Of course in hot dry weather. the smaller vases re- quire watering daily, and even twice a day; yet it should not be for- gotten that frequent watering is an evil, often an unavoid- able one ; but to some extent sur- face-mulching pre- vents this, and therefore oug
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GEEEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 51 a mulching or surfacing of leaf-soil, decayed ma- nure, or cocoa-fibre refuse (this last the neatest), which prevents cracking of the soil, and renders it unnecessary to water so frequently, though when this is done it should be tho- roughly, and not in daily driblets. Of course in hot dry weather. the smaller vases re- quire watering daily, and even twice a day; yet it should not be for- gotten that frequent watering is an evil, often an unavoid- able one ; but to some extent sur- face-mulching pre- vents this, and therefore ought to be renewed when- ever it is needed. Next to watering and mulching, is the necessity of picking off aU seed-pods and de- cayed flowers. These quickly ex- haust the plants, growth is checked, and continuous flowering becomes an impossibility. The effort there- fore should be made to pick over the plants at least once each week, and to apply manure-water once in the same Clianthus Dampierii, GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. By William Hugh Gower. Clianthus. — Pea-flowering plants of noble aspect, well deserving a place in every green-house. The soil should consist of loam and peat in equal parts, with a little sand added. All the tinds require an abundant supply of water, but it must not be allowed to stagnate about the roots, and in summer the syringe must be freely used in order to prevent the attacks of red spider. C. pwiiceus—the first species introduced to culti- vation—is a native of New Zealand, where, from the appearance of the flowers, it gets the name of Parrot's - bill. The pinnate leaves are some six inches long, and dark green; above, paler,, and slightly hairy be- low ; flowers pro- duced in large pendulous clusters from the axils of the leaves ; deej) reddish - crimson, the individual flowers being up- wards of three inches in length. This plant requires frequent pinching in order to produce a bush, as from its natural habit it is more adapted to train upon
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