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allowing of free percolation of moisture, and sloping towards the 
south so as to be sheltered from the cold winds of winter. The 
situation should be in the vicinity of running water, which is 
necessary for the distillation. The propagation is not effected by 
cuttings or layers, but by cutting down or digging up entire 
bushes, such as appear to leave blanks in the lines of flower in the 
hedgerows by reason of the plants being worn out. These bushes 
are pulled completely up and chopped into pieces. As the branches 
spring from the bottom of the stem, the stump with as much of 
the root as possible left attached is torn up and divided with a 
spade or hatchet, and is placed with the boughs, leaves and all, in 
pieces four or five abreast horizontally in long straight trenches 
about 40 centimetres broad and the same in depth; part of the 
mould taken from the trench is then thrown lightly on, and a thin 
dressing of manure is thrown over all. If possible it is then 
watered. The planting is done in October or November; the 
young shoots make their appearance about the following April, 
being of a deep red colour until they attain the height of about 
20 centimetres. The ground is then weeded and raked with great 
care; it is again weeded at the beginning of June, andin November, 
when the rest of the mould which was not put back into the 
trench the year before is carefully heaped up to the base of the 
young shoots (which by this time are about 30 centimetres high), 
to protect them against the cold of winter. The following May 
the plants will have attained the height of about 60 centimetres, 
and produce a few flowers which will be harvested with the rest, 
and be sufficiently productive to cover the expenses incurred in 
keeping the ground clean. The next year they will be in fuil 
bearing. Its maximum production is in the fifth vear. When 
the bush has attaimed its tenth year, many cultivators prune it 
right down to the ground to strengthen it ; new branches and even 
flowers will appear the following year. The harvest commences 
about the third week in May, according to the season, and lasts 
about a month; there is sometimes another small gathering of 
flowers in November. After the harvest the ground is cleaned of 
weeds, and in October it is slightly manured, the earth being hoed 
up to the roots of the bushes to protect them in the winter. 
The pruning takes place in March, when all withered branches 
are carefully removed. In April the ground is again cleaned, and 
the mould which was heaped up at the roots of the bushes before 
