This is a really effective and useful accession to our list of free-flowering stove-plants, and one that should be in every collection where effective furnishing plants and cut flowers are much in demand. It is a soft-wooded free-going plant, compact in habit, and yields in great abundance terminal spikes of rich dark-orange flowers. And when each plant is denuded of its flowering stem and spike, the plant has the very commendable habit of throwing up fresh growths from the bottom, which in their turn yield their effective spikes of flowers.

Cuttings put in in February, March, and April, and grown freely on, will continue the succession of bloom from the end of June till Christmas. It strikes freely in a bottom-heat of 80°, and when rooted should be potted into 3-inch pots, three plants in each pot. When well rooted another shift into a 6-inch pot will suffice to make nice strong plants of it large enough for ordinary house-decoration, and for yielding a goodly supply of cut blooms. It thrives in a soil composed of one part turfy loam, and one part of fibry peat with a little well-decomposed manure and silver-sand To grow it dwarf and compact, keep it near the glass well exposed to light; and in an ordinary stove temperature it grows very freely. It should be freely syringed till it begins to bloom; and to keep the plants blooming vigorously without larger shifts, water occasionally with clear manure-water.

A. P. H.