The Garden Under Glass

WORTHY PLANTS FOR GREENHOUSE 137 Nerium (Oleander).—A plant often met with but seldom grown well. Grown from cuttings. Cool temperature. Oleander.—See above. Oncidium.—A fairly populär orchid, most of them need-ing a cool to warm temperature. See notes on Orchids. Varieties : Forbesi, papilio, sarcodes and varicosum. Orange Trees.—These are seldom grown by small owners. Once established they require nothing beyond protecting from frost, watering carefully and frequently sponging. Pancratium.—A beautiful, fragrant warm-house plant grown on similar lines to the eucharis, which it resembles. Propagated from offsets. When well established requires plenty of water. Pandanus.—A graceful variegated foliage plant of the pine family. Increased from offsets, which should not be detached until they have a few roots. Useful as a table or room plant. Warm house. Panicum.—A pretty little foliage plant often used as an edging to the staging. Very easily propagated from cuttings, which should be done frequently. Warm house. Peperomia.—A pretty little variegated dot plant for the warm house. Propagated from cuttings. Plumbago Rosea.—Usually grown under warm con-ditions to produce flowers for table and room decoration. Root cuttings in a brisk bottom heat. P. capensis may be grown as a greenhouse climber or as a tub plant and be cut back before breaking in to growth. It is very pretty and is often employed in the garden. Pteris.—See Ferns. Saintpaulia.—A pretty little plant with violet-like flowers, often used as a dot plant in the warm house.