The Streptacarpus biflora is one of the prettiest and most useful plants we have. The flower, which resembles the Gloxinia, is much prettier, although not affording such a variety of colour. It is far more useful than Gloxinia, for it remains in constant bloom all the year round, and is just the plant to suit amateurs, for it can be easily grown, and well repays the attention it requires with a profusion of flowers. It can be easily propagated either from leaves or by division. If a quantity of leaves are put in a compost of peat, loam, leaf-mould, and sand in January, and placed in a little bottom-heat, they will soon strike root. They should then be potted off into 72-sized pots and placed in a warm greenhouse or intermediate house, where they will make rapid growth. When they have filled the pots with roots, they should be shifted into large 60's, using the same compost as before, only adding a little cow-dung or mushroom-dung. When they have filled those pots with roots they may be allowed to bloom. If they require another shift, it will not harm them to do so when in bloom; for I have frequently shifted them when in full bloom and have not seen the least bad effects from so doing. I am sure, if any one that has not got this plant will procure it, it will give them entire satisfaction.

G. Warren.

Balcombe Place.