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STEPIIANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. 



Fig. 24. The Many-floivered Stephanotis. 



This plant, we find, is propagated with 

 facility, by making cuttings of the ends of 

 the flowering shoots, and planting them in 

 pots of sandy loam, and covering them with a 

 bell-glass, or placing them under a common 

 hot-bed frame, in a shaded situation. When 

 wanted for trellises, etc., in the open bor- 

 der, the cuttings should be planted at any 

 time from July to the middle of September, 



so as to allow them to make roots before 

 winter. We find that such well-rooted cut- 

 tings may, if kept moderately dry, be pre- 

 served in a common green-house through 

 the winter. 



When planted in the open border, the 

 soil should be made rich and deep. If it is 

 rather moist, and the situation is one rather 

 warm, and fully exposed, the growth of the 

 plant will be the more luxuriant. 



As the Stephanotis is a twining plant, when 

 once fairly growing at the foot of fitting 

 supports, it will generally take care of it- 

 self; in our hot midsummer Aveather, it 

 grows quite rapidly. Though yet rare, and 

 seen in only a few choice collections, its 

 beauty of habit, leaf and blossom, added to 

 its perfume, will no doubt soon introduce it 

 to the notice of lovers of fine plants.* 



Keeping Curkants and Gooseberries. — 

 The Prairie Farmer says, that they have, 

 for several years, practised the following 

 mode, by which the " green fruit " maybe 

 kept for any length of time, as good as 

 when first taken from the bushes : "Pick 

 them when fully grown, let them be dried 



from any dew or rain, and put them into 

 glass bottles, cork the bottles tight, and 

 cover the corks with sealing wax; then 

 cover the bottles partially Avith sand or earth 

 in the cellar." 



* We observe that Messrs. Thorburn & Co. of New- 

 York, are exhibiting pretty specimens of Stephanotis flori- 

 bunda, in pots, grown at their garden at Astoria, L. I. 



