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to greater advantage during the summer, and 

 other plants might replace them the following 

 year. 



When seeds of the Trachelium cannot be pro- 

 cured, the plants may be increased by off-sets or 

 cuttings, which may be taken off almost at any 

 season of the year. These should be planted in 

 pots filled with fresh undunged earth, and then 

 placed in a shady situation until they have taken 

 root, when they may be turned out into the most 

 sheltered situations of the garden, and where 

 they should be planted in clumps of four or six 

 plants, at about eighteen inches' distance from 

 each other; so that when they grow up they 

 appear as one large plant, and their flowers, al- 

 though small, are so numerous as to form a mass 

 of blue corollas, each sending forth a style con- 

 siderably longer than the corolla, and which, 

 being headed by a small globular stigma, adds 

 greatly to the beauty of the flowers. 



Where seeds can be procured, they should be 

 sown in autumn, soon after they are ripe, for 

 when they are kept out of the ground till spring, 

 they frequently fail, or if they do grow, it is not 

 before the following spring. When the plants 

 come up, they should be kept clean from weeds, 

 and as soon as they are big enough to be re- 

 moved, they should be transplanted on an east- 



