128 NAT. ORDER. — EUPHORBIACE^E. 



Propagation and Culture. All these plants may be raised by 

 setting cuttings, made at a joint, five or six inches long, after being 

 rubbed in sand and laid on the shelf a few days to have the wounds 

 healed over, in the summer about June, in small pots filled with 

 light, dry, sandy mould, with some rubbish at the bottoms, such as 

 that constituted of a fourth part of screened lime rubbish, the same 

 proportion of sea-sand, and one-half of light, fresh, vegetable earth, 

 well mixed and blended together by frequent turning over, plunging 

 them in the bark hot-bed, giving suitable shade in the hot sunny 

 weather, and a little water once or twice a week, as there may be 

 occasion. When the plants have stricken root, they should have air 

 admitted quite freely while in that situation, or be removed into the 

 stove to be hardened before winter. 



They must afterwards be allowed larger pots once a year as they 

 advance in growth, and be frequently refreshed with water in the 

 summer season, but only very sparingly in the winter. Most of 

 these sorts are capable of being kept on the shelves of hot-houses, 

 and some of them, such as the sixth, seventh, and eighth sorts, in a 

 dry, airy green-house, or glass-case, during the winter season, care 

 being taken to guard them against the frost, and in the summer they 

 may be set out in the open air. 



: The fifth species stands in need of support to prevent the weight 

 of the branches forcing it upon the pots ; and by such management 

 they will rise four or five feet in height, producing numerous side 

 branches. The ninth sort requires little or no care when once intro- 

 duced, except keeping the young plants dean, as it will be continued 

 by its scattering the seeds. The whole of these varieties, except the 

 last, afford variety in hot and green-house collections, and that in 

 the borders of pleasure-grounds. 



The properties of i?(/7j/ior6/occ« are so important, that I do not 

 think I should fulfil the object of this work, if I did not, in addition 

 to the foregoing general view of the order, add a detail list of the 

 qualities of the most important species named by writers — some o. 



