. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. CULTURE OF FAVORITE PLANTS. ^HAFF-FLOWER is the significance of this name, which is derived from the Greek, and has been given to this plant because of the chaff-like appearance of its blossoms. The plant is one of the most attractive of the well known Amaranth family, and is beginning to be perhaps better known as the Iresine. U
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. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. CULTURE OF FAVORITE PLANTS. ^HAFF-FLOWER is the significance of this name, which is derived from the Greek, and has been given to this plant because of the chaff-like appearance of its blossoms. The plant is one of the most attractive of the well known Amaranth family, and is beginning to be perhaps better known as the Iresine. Under whatever name, it is in all its varieties a very pretty, desirable and easily cultivated garden 'or house plant. The beauty of its vai-ied foliage will enhance the attractiveness of the best collection. It will grow in any common garden soil, in an atmos- phere ranging from fifty to seventy-five degrees, the latter grade being abso- lutely necessary for a rapid growth. A few of the bright-colored varieties, as the A. Lindenii, with its long, pointed leaves, are always conspicuous among a collection of window-plants, the bright red foliage contrasting admirably with the surroundings, and producing almost the effect of flowers among the green leaves of the other plants. The varieties known as Gilsonii and Aureus Reticulatus have rounded leaves, the latter being also conspicuous for their gold and crimson web-like markings; while the former are generally an intense crimson, but with weakening shades down to a salmon color. They form an effective ornament when introduced among Rose Geraniums or other like green foliage plants; and can be planted so as to assume any shape to suit the taste of the cultivator, as a circle around other plants, a cross or heart in the midst of others, and the like. They can be easily kept from straggling by pinching back with the finger and thumb, and thus maintained for a whole se'ason in the shape it was originally- designed they should present.