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off in the autumn : they also strike freely, and may therefore 

 be raised from cuttings ; but, of late, they have been chiefly 

 raised from seeds, which yield a much greater variety of fo- 

 liage than the several enumerated sorts exhibit. The seed 

 should be washed out of the soft berries and dried ; then a 

 bed, with a portion of turfy peat dug among the ordinary 

 soil, should be prepared, and the seed sown very thinly in- 

 deed upon it, and raked in. When it comes up let it be 

 cleared of weeds, and, in very dry weather, occasionally 

 watered. They may remain until large enough to plant out 

 a foot apart ; for, if they have not room, they soon become 

 drawn. Here they have only to be kept clean till they are 

 large enough to plant where they are to stand. Except 

 where otherwise specified, those named below are evergreen. 



B. aquifolium (holly-leaved) ; evergreen shrub ; 5 feet ; flow- 

 ers yellow, in May; North America ; 1823. B. Beali (Beal's) ; 

 evergreen shrub; 5 feet; flowers yellow, in March'; China; 

 1852. B. Darwinii (Darwin's) ; evergreen shrub ; 5 feet ; flow- 

 ers deep orange, in May ; Chili ; 1847. B. dealbata (whitened) ; 

 evergreen shrub ; 5 feet ; flowers yellow, in May ; Mexico ; 

 1833. B. dulcis (sweet) ; evergreen shrub ; 5 feet ; flowers yel- 

 low, in May ; Magellan ; 1 830. B. empetrifolia (empetrum- 

 leaved) ; half-hardy evergreen shrub ; 3 feet ; flowers yellow, in 

 May; Magellan; 1827. B. fasicularis (bundled); half-hardy 

 evergreen shrub ; 6 feet ; flowers yellow, in May ; California ; 

 1820. B. Fortuni (Fortune's) ; evergreen shrub; 8 feet ; flow- 

 ers yellow, in July; China; 1846. B.glumacea (glumaceous) ; 

 evergreen shrub ; 10 feet ; flowers yellow, in May ; North 

 America; 1822. B. ilicifolia (holly-leaved); evergreen shrub ; 

 8 feet ; flowers orange-yellow, in July ; Terra del Fuego ; 1843. 

 B. Jamiesoni (Jameson's) ; evergreen shrub ; flowers yellow ; 

 Peru; 1847. B. Loxensis (Loxa) ; half-hardy evergreen shrub ; 

 4 feet ; flowers yellow ; Loxa ; 1848. B. macrophylla (large- 

 leaved) ; evergreen shrub ; 5 feet ; flowers yellow ; Japan ; 

 1847. B. Nepalcnsis (Nepaul) ; half-hardy evergreen shrub; 

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