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slro^'cd. The boxes or pols slioulcl remain in such shady silualions 

 unlil the lK\L',iiir/m^ ol" October, when ihev nia^' b(> nuncil so as lo 

 enjoy the lull sun during ihe winlcM' season. In Marcli, when llie 

 phuits lie-in lo appear, lliey should be a!;aiu iinnoxxul so as to ha\e 

 only (he Ibrciioon sun; tor il'lliey are too much exposed lo heat tire 

 youno- pUuits are soon deslioyed. 'i'liey shouUl bi; relVoshed occa- 

 sionally widi water in ilyy wcadici', and l)e carefully kept clean I'roni 

 weeds. 



AV lien the leaves are enliiely decayed, the hhAs should be taken 

 uj) in the UKinner directed al)ovc; and as there will be many small 

 roots lell, the earth sliould either lie leturned inlo the boxes again, or 

 spread u[)on a bed of" light earth, lo see what j)lanls may rise the 

 succeeding year. The roots after being thus taken up should be 

 immediately rej)lanted in hvds of light fresh sandy earth, about three 

 or four inches asunder; covering them about three inches thick with 

 the same light earth. The spring following most of the plants a\ ill 

 jiroduce flowers, but not so large or fair as in the succeeding years. 

 As the roots of these plants are fieshy, and generally run down deep, 

 they will not bear to be kept long out of the ground; therefore, 

 ■when lliey are removed, it should be done early in the autunm, that 

 ihey may take fresh root before the frost sets in. 



In this mode of propagation the plants thrive best in loamy soil; 

 as in very light dry ground they are apt to be destroyed by too 

 much heat. 



These are plants that afTord variety in the borders of pleasure- 

 grounds, especially the first species and iis varieties, which are hardy, 

 succeeding in almost any situation. 



In the hepatka kind the propagation may be effected in the single 

 sorts either by the seed or the parting of the roots; but in the double 

 it can only be done by the latter method. The seed of the single 

 flowers frequently, however, produces double ones. New varieties 

 are likewise raised in the former manner. 



In the first method the most jn-oper season for sowing the seeds 

 is in the beginning of August, either in pots or boxes of light earth, 

 Avhich should be i)laccd so as to have only the morning sun unlil 



