The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . good ? We find that the growthmade is often of a sickly yellowish hue, andwanting in what we call bone, indicatingthat some essential has been wanting whilstgrowth was forming. Growth made in insuf-ficient light cannot be healthy. There are 50 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [January 24, 1903. of course, many plants, such as those usedfor forcing in winter, which appear to makeperfect growth in these ill-balanced condi-tions, but we know that they require muchnursing afterwards to restore them to ahealthy st
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . good ? We find that the growthmade is often of a sickly yellowish hue, andwanting in what we call bone, indicatingthat some essential has been wanting whilstgrowth was forming. Growth made in insuf-ficient light cannot be healthy. There are 50 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [January 24, 1903. of course, many plants, such as those usedfor forcing in winter, which appear to makeperfect growth in these ill-balanced condi-tions, but we know that they require muchnursing afterwards to restore them to ahealthy state ; indeed, a plant that has beenseverely forced is, as a rule, only fit for therubbish-heap afterwards. There is a marked difference betweenthe growth and behaviour in winter of theplants in the drier houses and those in themoist houses at Kew. If a plant has provedrefractory in a stove, we have sometimesfound it worth while to try it in No. 5, whereinthe succulent plants are grown, and generallythe results have been satisfactory. The air inthis house is always drier than in any other,. FIG. 23.— X. Above placed across the ligure are reduced illustrationsof the leaves of Leptokclia x . and of Leptotes bicolorwith cross-sections. The larger Jeaf sti etching fromthe top to the bottom of the illustration is that ofLrclia cinnabarina, onc-fnurth of the real size: tothe right of it is a cross-section: and lower downthe column of the hybrid, seen from the front witha separate pollen-mass (magn 2 diam.) To the leftof the reader is the column seen from the side, andat the bottom the complete flower of the hybrid ofthe real size. especially in winter, when very little wateris given to the plants. The success of our grandfathers in thecultivation of plants which we can scarcelykeep alive, such as hard - wooded CapeEricas, Phoenocoma, Aphclexis, Genetyllis,&c, was, I believe, largely due to the carethey took over the watering. This was con-sidered by far the most importan
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