IRISH GARDENING. 



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lully .grown as an ojteu bush, but genei^ally the 

 best results are got by cultivating it against a 

 wall where the long slender shoots produced in 

 early summer can become well ripened and 

 lurnished.with flower buds .which open in winter. 

 Hard frost has little effect on buds, or open 

 flowers, since the latter simply close a little only 

 to open again with the thaw or an hour or two of 

 winter sun. There are two forms of the Winter 

 Sweet, one regarded as the type and another 

 called grandiflora, which has distinctly larger 

 flowers, and is the more desirable. 



In the matter of cultivation there is no 

 difficulty. Any good garden soil will produce 

 ample growth," bvit a detail of paramount im- 

 portance is pruning. This should be done 

 immediately after flowering, and consists in 

 cutting hard back all the longer shoots which 

 have flowered. Ii a few of the shorter s])urs are 

 left with the faded flowers a crop of seed can 

 often be got, but this cannot be relied on to 

 produce the large flowered variety, although 

 quite good and useful ])lants may be raised in 

 this way. Regarding ])ropagation, seeds as just 

 stated form a ready means of increase, while 

 layering is a fairly sure means when carefully 

 carried out. The wood is extremely brittle, 

 necessitating great care in putting down the 

 layers. Cuttings are rather difficult to root, but 

 at the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, they nave 

 been rooted in two ways. In both cases young 

 shoots pulled off with, a heel in May or when the 

 shoots were considered long enough were used. 

 In the one instance they were inserted in sandy 

 soil under a bell glass kept close and shaded. 



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