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place in shady position. Keep moist and apply water very 

 lightly. Place a sheet of glass over the seed-pan. After 

 large enough to be pricked off, treat like rooted cuttings. 

 The best time for all modes of grafting is early spring By 

 scales from the corms, carefully rubbed off and sown like 

 seeds, in pots or pans of the same compost, barely covered 

 with sand, and placed in bottom heat. By leaves, severed 

 from the stems, and pricked into pots of similar soil to the 

 cuttings, placing all the petiole below the surface, and placed 

 in bottom heat. By cuttings from any portion of the stem ; 

 insert in a soil of equal parts of peat and sand, in well- 

 drained pots, and place in bottom heat. 



Achras. See Sapota. 

 Achyranthes. See Iresine. 

 Achyronia. See Priestleya. 

 Aciphylla. Umbellifera. 



Propagated in spring by seeds or divisions. 

 Acis. See Leucoium. 

 Acisanthera. Melastomacea? . 



Increased by cuttings, which root freely in a mixture of 

 loam, sand and peat, in stove temperature. 



Acmadenia. Rutaceoe. 



Increased by cuttings pricked in a pot of very sandy soil, 

 covered with a bell-glass. 



Acmena. Myrtacece. 



Propagated by placing half-ripened cuttings in sand under 

 a glass without heat. 



Aconitum( Aconite, Monk's Hood, Wolf's Bane). Ranunculace(t> 

 Seeds should be sown as soon as ripe in a cold-frame or 

 border; also by division. Roots should not be left about, 

 for they are very poisonous. 



Acontias. See Xanthosoma. 

 Acorns. See Quercus. 

 Acorus. Aroidece. 



Propagated during spring by divisions. 

 Acradenia. Rtitace<e. 



Propagated by seeds and cuttings under a bell-glass. 



