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fourleentb species the seed should be sown in the autumn on borders 

 or olher pUices, where they are to remain. They must be tliinned in 

 the following spring, and they mostly flower in the second. If the 

 former of these sorts be designed to grow on rocky barren situations, 

 the seeds should be sown in March, where they are to remain. 



AVhere the latter mode is employed, the cuttings should be made 

 in the summer season, and planted out in a proper shade till they 

 have stricken root. 



These are most of them plants adapted to the purpose of orna- 

 ment, either in rocky barren situations, or in the borders, clumps or 

 other parts of gardens and pleasure-grounds. The first species is 

 particularly suited for covering rock work, and the thirteenth also 

 grows well in such situations, and it, as well as most of the other 

 species, is adapted for the purpose of affording variety in the larger 

 borders or other compartments. They last the longest in dry poor 

 rocky situations. 



