The Garden Under Glass

CHAPTER XI OTHER WORTHY PLANTS FOR THE GREENHOUSE I here intend to give very brief notes on other greenhouse plants not already mentioned. The list I do not claim will be anything like complete, for I wish this to be a practical and populär rather than a botanical book, and I think my space can be better utilised by giving prominence to the plants that are likely to be grown and omitting those which are not essential to a beautiful greenhouse and which not one amateur in a thousand will be likely to grow. Before discussing these plants it may be well to say that, unless stated otherwise, ordinary potting soil made up of loam, leaf-soil and sand will suit these plants. As regards the temperature needed, “ warm ” will mean 6o° to 70 ° ; “cool,” 50° to 6o°, and “cold,” 40° to 50°. Abutilon.—Beautiful foliage plant, sometimes used in beds. Can be propagated by cuttings or seeds in the spring. Cool. Acacia.—Very pretty flowering plants, mostly yellow. Grow from cuttings taken off in summer or early autumn and struck under cold conditions. Cold house. Varieties, arma ta and pulchella. Acalypha Musaica. A pretty foliage plant useful for house or table. A. Sanderiana has green leaves but beautiful drooping tassel-like flowers, rendering it <jis-tinctly ornamental. Increased by cuttings in warm propagator. Warm house plants. Achimenes.—Pretty flowering plants, doing well in 1 129