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learn, found it cultivated in the Japan gardens, where it at- 

 tained the height of six to eight feet. Its native habitat is 

 supposed to be Corea, or the north of China, and it is some- 

 times found growing in a wild state in the environs of cities, 

 but evidently not indigenous. 



According to M. M. Zuccarini and Siebold, (^Fl. Japan^) it 

 forms an upright and bushy shrub, with slender branches, 

 which are covered with a smooth, ash-colored bark, which, 

 when old, detaches itself in thin scales. The leaves are oval, 

 rounded at their base, a little acute at the apex, downy be- 

 neath, and denticulated at the edge. The flowers, which ap- 

 pear in clusters of four to six, the entire length of the shoots, 

 are perfectly snow-white, and perfectly double. In shape, 

 they resemble the double i^anunculus aconitifolius, and their 

 number and arrangement, as well as the light green of the 

 foliage, and neat habit, render it the most charming of hardy 

 shrubs. 



Its cultivation is the same as that of the ^S'pirse^a trilobata, 

 and other well known kinds ; and it is increased either by 

 division of the root or by layers. L. V. H. 



Mr. Van Houtte has now the whole stock in his possession, 

 and proposes to sell the plants by subscription the coming 

 fall, as will be seen by reference to his advertisement. We 

 trust it will soon find its way into our gardens. — Ed. 



Art. V. On the Propagation of Stove and Greenhouse Ex- 

 otics : in a Series of Letters. By James Kennedy, Gardener 

 to S. T. Jones, Staten Island, New York. 



Letter IT. Propagation by Cuttings. 



As my former remarks on the Propagation of Exotics seem 

 to have met with your approbation, I will continue the arti- 

 cle in your next number. I believe my last letter treated of 

 the propagation by seeds, as far as necessary to insure suc- 

 cess, and therefore I will devote this article to propagation by 

 cuttings. 



