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case the roots must be carefully uncoiled, and spread out in 

 straight lines when they are permanently planted. Seeds 

 may be often obtained from America, and the plants raised 

 from them are the most vigorous, but do not blossom so early. 

 They should be sown in sandy peat, placed in a warm frame, 

 potted as they appear, and kept for several years in a cold pit 

 during winter until they get well established. The arboreous 

 species are only suited for large gai'dens. M. graudijiora and 

 its varieties are evergreen trees, which should find a place in 

 every garden : they are usually trained against walls, which 

 they cover wdth a mantle of large glossy laurel-like leaves, 

 decorated from June to September with large white fragrant 

 cup-shaped blossoms, looking like large eggs when in the bud 

 state. Wherever there is a shrubbery or a clump of peat- 

 earth shrubs, one or tvro of the hardy deciduous species 

 should also be grown for their large fragrant blossoms in the 

 early spring months. M. fuscata, a small evergreen, some- 

 thing like a Camellia in its foliage, is a greenhouse plant, 

 and in May bears blossoms exquisitely fragrant, though not 

 very conspicuous. This should be potted in turfy loam and 

 peat, and is increased by grafting or inarching on the com- 

 moner kinds, as M. ohovata, which mode of propagation is 

 also resorted to with the other weaker and more tender kinds. 

 M. consjnciia, hardy deciduous tree. M. fuscata, greenhouse 

 evergreen shrub, flowers brown. M. glauca, hardy deciduous 

 tree. M. grandlfiora, hardy evergreen tree. Of this there 

 are several varieties, among which that known as Exmouthiana 

 is the most desirable. 21. macrophijlla, hardy deciduous tree, 

 flowers white and purple. M. purpurea, hardy deciduous 

 shrub, flowers purple. M. tripetala, hardy deciduous tree. 

 Those not deciduous otherwise bloom white. 



MAHERNIA. [Byttneriaceae.] Small soft-wooded green- 

 house sub-shrubs. They are raised from cuttings planted in 

 sand, and placed in a moderate hotbed. The plants grow 

 well in a light compost of loam, peat, and leaf-mould in equal 

 parts, the texture opened by the addition of a little sand. 

 They are liable to grow straggling, and hence to produce a 

 well-formed plant frequent resort must be had to the plan of 

 topping the young shoots while in a growing state, to cause 

 them to develope lateral growth : the plant form pretty low 



