417 



Shoots, in a sort of whorl, in the garden commonly (iv o togeilier, the 

 two lower of which are later: they arc on short, spreading, one- 

 flowered peduncles, jointed at the top. It is a native of Peru, 

 flowering most jiart of the summer. 



Culture. — These plants are iu most of the sorts raised without 

 ujuch difticulty. 



Culture in the Sage Kind. — This in all the varieties may be effected 

 by slips or cuttings of the young shoots from the sides of tlie 

 branches, sometimes also by bottom rooted oflsels, and likewise by 

 seed. Slips both of the former and same year's growth may be used. 

 Those of the first sort may be employed in April, but the latter 

 not till May, or later; these, however, most readily strike root, and 

 assume a free growth. 



In either case moist weather should be chosen: and haviiio- re- 

 course to some good bushy plants, a proper (luaniiiy of the outward 

 robust side shoots, about five, six, or seven inches long, should be 

 slipped off", trimming off all the lower leaves, then planted out in 

 some shady border, with a dil:)ble, in rows half a foot asunder, 

 putting them down almost to their tops, giving water directly, to 

 settle the earth close, as well as to promote an early emission of 

 root-fibres, and repeating the waterings occasionally iu dry weather: 

 the slips in general soon emit fibres, and shoot freely at top; when 

 they have a tendency to spindle up wiih slender shoots, or run up to 

 flower, it is proper to top them short, in order to force out laterals 

 below, to asume a bushy growth : they mostly form tolerably bushy 

 plants by the autumn, when, or in the spring following, they may 

 be removed, with balls of earth about their roots, and planted where 

 they are to remain, either in four feet beds, or in continued rows, a 

 foot and half asunder, if designed as a close plantation for use: 

 those designed for the pleasure-ground should be disposed in the 

 borders, Sec. so as to afford variety. 



AVhere there are rooted offsets, they may be slij)ped otf separately 

 with the fibres to them, either as tlu; plants stand in the ground, or 

 the bunches of plants taken up and divided into as many separate 



•i n 



