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The seeds, when gathered, should be immediately labelled with their 

 genealogy, and stored in pots of sand, kept moderately moist and warm ; 

 in about two months they will commence sending forth their young radices ; 

 as soon as these are perceived, each seed should be planted in a small 

 shallow pot, thus preventing the long tap, which in the common mode of 

 planting descends to the bottom, without any horizontal or fibrous roots. 

 The pots should then be placed in a mild hot-bed, or stove, giving a little 

 air as the foliage becomes developed, and when they have attained the 

 height of three or four inches, be removed to a shelf near the light, and 

 carefully watered. When the first growth has ripened its wood, the plants 

 should be shifted to pots a size larger, and if treated with liquid guano, 

 will attain the first season eight to ten inches in height ; these are now 

 sufficiently large for inarching, and thus, in two or three years from the 

 seed, you may generally prove whether the new hybrid be worthy of 

 extension. 



The compost for young plants consists of two parts well rotted turfy 

 loam, one part leaf soil, and one part peat or heath mould, with sand to 

 make it free. 



