This is a plant eminently suited to the wants of amateurs, as it is of such easy culture and such excellent habit of growth that failure is well nigh impossible. And it is one of the very best of window plants in cultivation. We grow a quantity of it for vases and conservatory decoration, for it requires neither stakes nor ties to make it into an excellent shaped specimen. Cuttings of it strike freely in moist heat, and if put in early, make a nice succession to the old roots that are dried off and treated exactly the same as Gloxinias or Achimenes. We lay the pots on their sides under the stages of intermediate houses when the winter temperature is about 500, and in February they are taken out, the old foliage cut clean off and a good soaking of water given and set up on a light shelf, when they quickly push up a number of shoots, the points of which are taken off for cuttings, and the old ball of earth is shaken away and the plants potted in light, rich soil; in the same sized pots as before they are grown on in warm frames or any of the forcing houses, when a brisk, moist temperature is maintained for the earliest flowering batch, and others are kept in cool houses or frames, and the flowering points pinched out to form successions.

As soon as the earliest lot show flower they are removed to cooler quarters, when they develop lovely plants and last a long time in beauty; the foliage alone is very pretty, but when surmounted by a cloud of pretty pink flowers the effect is very good. At our local cottage garden show this plant is a great acquisition to collections of window plants shown by cottage and amateur gardeners. - James Groom, in Gardening Illustrated.