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given. When well rooted, they should be removed into separate 

 pols: but by being planted in pots in spring, and plunged in a hot- 

 bed, they are rendered much forwarder. In other respects they re- 

 quire the same management as the seedlings. 



These are beautiful evergreen shrubs, effecting a fine variety at 

 all seasons, both from their leaves being of different figures, sizes, and 

 shades of green and white, and their being very profuse in most ele- 

 gant flowers, which though of short duration, there is a daily suc- 

 cession of new ones for a month or six weeks on the same plant; and 

 when these different species are employed, they exhibit a constant 

 bloom for near three months. 



They are mostly hardy enough to prosper in the open ground in 

 any dry soil; and if they have a sheltered situation it will be an ad- 

 vantage, as in open exposures they are rather subject to injury from 

 very severe frost; for which reason a plant or two of each sort should 

 be potted, to have shelter in winter in the green-house. 



The second and fifth are the most tender sorts. 



In shrubbery borders and clumps they should be placed towards 

 the fronts, in assemblage with other choice shrubs of similar growth. 

 All the sorts should be suffered to assume their own natural growth; 

 the straggling branches being only cut in with a knife. 



