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declines: ihe seeds are larger than those of the olhcr species, and as 

 rough as those of the second sort. It is a native of Mexico, flowering 

 from June till September. 



Culture. — In all the sorts the propagation is effected by sowing 

 the seed in the spring season, either on a warm border or in a hot- 

 bed; but the latter method produces the plants consideralily more 

 early, and in the greatest perfection. 



When cultivated on warm south borders, in the places where the 

 plants are to remain, the seed should be sown about the middle of 

 jApril, either in patches or in shallow drills, half an inch deep, and 

 six inches asunder: and when the places can be covered with hand- 

 glasses, or a frame and lights, or the seed be sown in pots under those 

 protections, or any other occasional shelter during the night-time 

 and in cold weather, it will greatly forward the germination of the 

 seed, as well as the growth of the young plants afterwards. In the 

 latter method, about June, the plants will be fit to plant out into the 

 borders or into pots. MoisL weather should be chosen for this pur- 

 pose, and water and occasional shade be given till well rooted: they 

 then readily grow, and acquire a tolerable size; but they do not 

 attain to a large size, or flower so early by a month or six weeks as 

 those forwarded in tlie hot-bed. 



In the latter method, a hot-bed should be prepared in March, or 

 early in April, under frame and lights, and earthed over about six 

 inches deep; then sowing the seed in the earth of the bed in shallow 

 drills half an inch dcej), as directed above, or in pots of rich earth 

 the same depth, plunging them in the earth of the bed. The latter 

 is the better method. The plants soon rise; when they should have 

 fresh air daily, in common witli the other plants of the bed, and fre- 

 quent refreshings of water; and when nearly two inches high, be 

 planted out into another fresh hot-bed to forward them, placing them 

 either in the earth of the bed, four or five inches asunder, or singly 

 in small pots (thirty-twos), plunging them in the bed; water and 

 shade should be immediately given till fresh-rooted, continuing the 

 care of admitting fresh air every mild day; and about the middle or 

 latter end of May, when they have acquired a good size and strength, 



