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garden : for this purpose thev should be wintered in dry 

 cold frames, and planted out about the end of May. There 

 are several garden varieties of E. coccinea ; that called miniata, 

 with scarlet tlowers, is the best. 



KAULFUSSIA. [Compositse.] A neat hardy annual, 

 forming a pretty dwarf plant for the margins of beds. The 

 seed should be sown in April in finely-pulverised soil ; or, 

 to obtain earlier blooms, it may be sown in pots in March, 

 and reared in a frame, ready to be planted out in good time 

 in May, almost or quite in bloom. For later flowering plants 

 it should be sown again about the end of July. It will grow 

 in any good garden soil. 



KE^NEDYA. [Leguminosae, § Papilionacese.] Green- 

 house evergreen twiners of considerable beauty. They may 

 be grown and bloomed in pots ; and, as they climb to a con- 

 siderable height, they are suitable for rafters and pillars in 

 conservatories. They grow best in a compost of half sandy 

 loam, a fourth dung, and a fourth turfy peat, with sand, 

 about a fifth of the whole, added. Small plants just rooted 

 may be potted in this compost in three-inch pots, and grown 

 in the greenhouse until they are full of roots, and then 

 changed to larger pots until the size is sufiicient to carry a 

 proper trellis. A good deal of taste may be exercised in the 

 choice of a support. Climbing plants are often made veiy 

 unnatural and frightful by the manner of training. In a 

 general way, we may observe that great round shields are 

 like nothing in nature ; pyramids are bad, because the plants 

 want more space to cover instead of less as they advance 

 upwards ; a straight pillar is tolerable, for we see Ivy climb- 

 ing a stone pillar ; and climbing plants of any sort will cling 

 to a column. Young plants raised in spring, and grown well 

 all the summer, will bloom abundantly the next spring. They 

 seed freely, and may be growm from seeds without difficulty. 

 Sow in pans or boxes, and put them in a hotbed or propa- 

 gating house ; and when they are up, and large enough to be 

 removed, prick them out three or four together in a three- 

 inch pot. When they have grown a couple of months or so 

 let them have a pot each, and then grow them on the same 

 as other plants. To raise them from cuttings select young 

 shoots, and plant them in sand under a bell-glass : when 



