Palms for Indoor Culture.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 6

Palms for Indoor Culture.

Upon bins subject the following extract} from-, Popular Gardening may be found useful Vy sqine: ot'-Qor readers :— -^JL'alms do'notrc- ' (jairo att'»y spcoial preparation to fit blieui for. voom culturo : they can bo grown in any room that, is -kept 'safe f,i,'om fi".QRt, but} if pop&ibfe give tlieui a temperate ' of ~fi om So to 60 dcgiccb. As usually grown t they are generally starved and givenjio opportunity \ to developj.ueir Iropiqal, leafage, sol woulpl *.?brielly insist, on Ihoir boing-^iyep more liberal tieatm.ent aiid every to' pro'p'o'ily 'develop .Qieixi'selvcs. They should be repotted anuually an'd> fjivjen .a ( cQmpo.^t composed "of two th'iids 'fibious loam and one-thiid well decaye.l manure.^ Ip potting always übe poroi^S or §oft baked, pets,. and let'them'bc piopbrlionato to the size of' We ' plants, "and seojb'o ie jthat they a ; r,Q well drained ; if the'jpots.arc ono;,bhifd filled with . drainage' "it is* none' too 'jiauch. , Repot during themonth of May (]Sovembei%.v £ cry qarel'uily lemoving'one-fhird of tho.old soil and replace in ,pofc~ a ?ize or two .larger. In t.h'o suuim&i^thev require partial shade and, plenty of water, both overhead and at the roots. Ib is best to plunge' them in abed of coal ashes ot cinders in order to prevent tjhc wot ins frouioeuteuiu^bho^pols. Turn the pots occasionally. In" winter the water supply should bej. uiore i»oderate v bufc.wJicn 'requi'-ed' wajtpr thqr^ugh^Y} $j? JsssyX IM?"ld never be permitted to become diut dry. At all seasons give liquid manuie once a week, and this will cause them to acquire brightness of leafage) and frequently sponge off the- leaver, very carefully with soapy water, to romove.dust.-divt, etc., 'as well as to keqp dqwn all insert- pests. They can K b,e placed outside about the 'middle of.-.May,-(November), and - brought inside -about the middle of - .September (March, or April in North New Zealand j, or as- soon as nights become cool and frost is expected. Palms rank among the most valuable of plants for. the window garden, for if properly .grown and cared for they will increase in size and value .eveivy year, and when they have become too large for the window garden they can bo readily sold or exchanged for smaller specimens. Tha .following are the most desirable varieties for thei window garden. Areca lutescens, f libra and Verschaffeltii, C&rludovjca/palmata, Gary ofca urens, Chaniasdora labifolia, iCoryplia Australis, Cham«erovs humijis aijd/pxr, eel^a, Cycas revoluta, Jubera spect-abilis,-Kcutia australis, -Latania Bourbonica,tOreodoxu,- regia,.Paudanus übilis,'Pho3nix<j[aQ(,y-' lifera and reclinata, Pbychosperma Alexandria, seaforthia elegans, Sabal Adansonii, ; Thrinax argenteaand eleyans, <and Wash irigbonia filifera. — "N.Z. Fanner."