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Culture. All these plants may be increased by parting the roots, 

 and some of them by slips and cuttings as well as seeds. 



As the first sort does not increase fast by the roots, the seeds may 

 be sown in the autumn on a bed of good earth, and in the following 

 summer the plants be removed into nursery rows half a foot apart, 

 in a rather shady situation, and in the beginning of the following 

 autumn set out where they are to remain and flower. They succeed 

 best in a soft loamy soil not too much exposed. 



The roots should be divided either in the autumn or very early 

 in the spring; but the former is the better, being afterwards either 

 planted out in rows to remain till they are strong, or, when strong, 

 at once to where they are to remain. 



Strong slips' or cuttings of the branches may be taken off in the 

 beginning of summer, and planted out in a shady border, due shade 

 and water being given till well rooted, when in the autumn they may 

 be removed to where they are to remain. 



The third sort succeeds best in a light soil, in an eastern situation. 



They all afford ornament in the borders and clumps of pleasure- 

 grounds. 



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