proved, that we shall only endeavour to supply di- 

 rections for that mode of increase. Thus raised, 

 they assume a more healthy habit, grow larger, and 

 and yield a display of much finer flowers. As the 

 propagation of the Hibiscus Syriacus from seeds 

 has not come fully under our immediate observation, 

 we shall take the liberty of supplying the necessary 

 information from what may be considered a good 

 authority Miller's Dictionary. 



The seeds should be sown in pots, filled with light 

 earth, about the end of March, and if they are placed 

 in a gentle hotbed, it will greatly forward the growth 

 of the young plants. When they are come up they 

 must be inured to the open air, and in May the pots 

 should be plunged into the ground, in a border ex- 

 posed to the east, where they may have the morning 

 sun. By thus plunging the pots, the soil in them 

 is prevented from drying so quickly as it would if 

 they were left on the surface, and less attention is 

 required in watering them during the summer. The 

 plants should be kept free from weeds and tolerably 

 moist ; and in autumn it will be proper to remove 

 the pots into a common frame, to screen them from 

 frost ; or into some other well-protected situation ; 

 for although these plants, when they have obtained 

 strength, will resist the cold of our winters, yet the 

 young plants, whose shoots are tender, are very often 

 injured by the early frosts of autumn. 



In the following spring they should be planted 

 nine inches apart, in beds of light rich earth ; be 

 kept free from weeds ; and in the winter again pro- 

 tected. Here they may remain one or two years, 

 and should then be finally transplanted. 

 Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 226. 



