ACHIMENES

Showy stove bulbs remarkable for their beauty. Given a sufficiency of

heat, the cultivation is of the easiest nature, for they grow rapidly

and flower freely, if potted in sandy peat, and kept in a warm

greenhouse or the coolest part of a stove, in a somewhat humid

atmosphere. It needs only the simplest management to have these plants

in bloom at almost any season of the year, for the bulbs may be kept

dormant for a considerable length of time without injury, and may be

started into growth as required to keep up a long succession of flowers.

They are occasionally well grown in common frames over hot-beds. For

suspended baskets Achimenes are invaluable.