THE BEST SPECIES.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 34, 30 January 1930, Page 9

THE BEST SPECIES.

There are soirie few of the species which are particularly handsome and well worth, growing, andyl must own to a great partiality for such fine sorts as F. f ulgens, its long scarlet tube and handsome leafage; F. corymbi fUrra, with a profusion of blossoms hanging in pensile clusters of scai'let, most 1 graceful' in form-; F., splendens, in which, the tubular flowers are scarlet with tips" of green on the sepals, a decidedly quaint and pretty effect in colour j. F. triphylla, which flowers over a long period each year • and the pretty little" F. procumbons, a most useful plant for hanging baskets, and in which tie greatest attraction is the profusion of large magenta-coloured berries which it carries all through the winter. It is, however, the hybrid forms that are most -generally grown, and which give t-he greatest vaTiety both in colouring and in general habit, for some among them flower, profusely on the 'smallest of bushes,'' and other of vigorous habit are well suited for clothing lofty pillars and rafters of large houses, while there are many intermediate growers capable of. being grown into •fine specimen pot plants..