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vines la pots on to the old-established ones, is very simple. The only important 

 point to be observed is, to have the rod of the pot-vine in the same stage of 

 growth as that of the old one, so as to prevent bleeding. The operation can be 

 done with safety when they have each — that is, both stock and scion — made 

 shoots of from two to three inches in length. 



Welbeck. William Tillert. 



LYCHNIS LAGASCLE. 



OOK PLANTS, which are very properly engaging more and more of the 

 attention of cultivators, will receive a choice accession in the pretty 

 species of which Mr. Fitch has given so good a representation in the 

 accompanying wood-cut. It is a low, glaucous, tufted, perennial herb, 

 with densely dichotomous stems, two to four inches long, having the lower 



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leaves linear abtuse, the upper lanceolate, and the intermediate ones ovate- 

 lanceolate ; while every ramification is terminated by a showy, rose-coloured 

 flower, as large as, and not unlike those of, Silene pendula. 



Dr. Hooker well observes that " this is at once one of the most beautiful and 

 most rare of the Bock plants now under cultivation in England, its native 

 locality being confined to a very narrow belt of the subalpine region of the 



