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COTYLEDON YELmXA. 



Kalosanthes. — For couserYatoiy decoration during July 

 there is nothing to compare with the Kalosanthes, except it be 

 the zonal pelargonium. It is not of course desirable to fill a 

 house with them, to the exclusion of everything else; for thev 

 are very stiff and formal in their habit, and the colours are too 

 much alike. But two or three dozen large well-grown plants 

 would be grand for lighting up a house full of ferns and other 

 ornamental foliage plants. To state the case in a few words, 

 they ought to be grown by scores where they can only be 

 numbered by units at present. 



The Kalosanthes, or Crassula, as it was formerly called, is 

 by no means difficult to grow well. In the first place, the 

 propagation is effected by taking off the tops of the shoots that 

 have not flowered as soon as the flowers are past : for the wood 

 is then ripe and firm, and not likely to decay, which is the case 

 if the tops are taken off early in the spring, when the plant is 

 in full gi'owth and the shoots soft and sappy. Any light sandy 

 soil will do for filling the pots in which the cuttings are to be 

 inserted, and a layer of dry silver sand should be put on the 

 surface, as it runs down into the hole made for the reception 

 of the cutting, and forms a base for the cutting to rest upon. 



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