Although the Heliotropium corytnbosum, and Peruvianum, with many beautiful varieties of more recent introduction, have been known, in collections, for years, and are by no means difficult to manage, yet, good flowering specimens are seldom to be met with during the winter months, when it is so desirable to have them in flower, emitting their delightful fragrance all around. The suitability of the Helio-tropium for greenhouse decoration, during the flowerless and dreary months of winter, does not appear to be so generally known as it should be.

To grow them for this purpose, the cuttings should be rooted in March or April; afterwards potted into three-inch pots, and placed in a frame, with a gentle bottom heat, and, in about three weeks or a month later, shifted into larger pots, when, if the season is sufficiently advanced, they may be plunged in a sheltered, warm border, being careful to shift them, from time to time, as the pots become filled with roots, until they are finally in ten or twelve-inch pots; keep them plunged until the weather becomes too precarious to leave them exposed longer, by which time they will have become fine, strong, bushy plants, well furnished with flowering shoots, and should be taken up, the pots washed clean, and have a good top dressing of rotten manure and leaf mould; the plants tied nicely into shape and removed into the greenhouse or conservatory, where they will continue in flower the whole of the winter. When in their winter quarters, be careful they never want for water, otherwise they will lose their leaves, and, although retaining their flowers when denuded of their foliage, they become unsightly.

Where circumstances admit, a good location for the stronger grown varieties is the back wall of the greenhouse or conservatory, where it will soon cover a large space, and flower freely throughout the winter months. For such a situation, the Intermedia, Corymbosum, Peruvianum, Souvenir de Liege, and Triomphe de Liege, are well adapted.

We need scarcely add, that to form a correct knowledge of the full value of the Heliotrope as a winter flowering plant, can only be by seeing well-grown specimens loaded with their sweet and beautiful flowers in rich profusion, fresh and lovely from the hand of nature.

Those who may feel desirous to have this beautiful plant to flower during the ensuing winter (it being now too late for cuttings to root and become sufficiently established for that purpose), can do so by purchasing of any florist or nurseryman, being careful to repot them and stop them back, placing them in some well-sheltered situation, and treating them as formerly mentioned; they will then amply repay any care and attention which may have been bestowed on them.

The following are well adapted for winter flowering in pots: -

Beauty Of The Boudoir

Best of all Heliotropes.

Marguerite Wilson

A splendid variety, with large flowers like Triomphe de Liege, with a dwarf compact habit.

Corymbotum

An old, but beautiful kind.

Laden Tardiff

One of the best for winter flowering.

Beptans

A most beautiful variety, with an incomparable perfume.

Beptans Major

Said to be superior to Reptans; raised by Mr. Geo. 0. Thorburn, of Newark, N. J.

Pendulum

A new ami beautiful variety, well adapted for vases, etc. Aug. 1,1856.