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to it is, that it is a plant of the easiest cultivation. Cuttings strike 

 readily any time during the spring or summer months, with ordinary 

 attention ; and the plant itself grows well in any common garden 

 soil. It should be grown in this country as it is in China, not tied 

 up in that formal unnatural way in which we frequently see plants 

 which are brought to our exhibitions, but a main stem or two chosen 

 for leaders, which in their turn throw out branches from their sides, 

 and then, when the plant comes into bloom, the branches, which are 

 loaded with beautiful flowers, hang down in graceful and natural 

 festoons. It was a plant of this kind which I have already noticed as 

 growing in the grotto-garden on the island of Chusan; and I doubt 

 not that plants of equal beauty will soon be produced in our gardens 

 in England. 



" The possessors of Weigela rosea had better give it some slight 

 protection during the next winter, by keeping it either in a green- 

 house or frame until duplicates are made, when these can be planted 

 out in the open air. The main object should be to enable the plant 

 to ripen its wood well, for when this is done it will not only be more 

 hardy, but it will also flower better in the following season. 



" Its capability of standing out our English winters will be shown 

 in the'garden of the Horticultural Society next winter ; but whether it 

 prove itself a hardy or a greenhouse plant, it is without doubt one of 

 the finest shrubs which have been introduced to this country of late 

 years." 



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Tlie Pee Keeper s Manual, or Practical Hints on the Management 

 and Complete Preservation of the Honey Pec. Py Henry 

 Taylor. Third edition. London, R. Groombridge and Sons, 

 Paternoster-row. 



Tnis is far the best practical publication on the subject that we have 

 read. It is illustrated by numerous engravings. All who take an 

 interest in the management of Bees, ought to possess the work. The 

 book is in 12rao., 144 pages, and got up in a very neat manner. 



