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In the first of these methods with the first 

 species, the seeds should be collected when per- 

 fectly ripe in November, or the following month, 

 and preserved in dry sand till the period of sow- 

 ing, which may either be in December or the 

 early spring season. The seed should be sown 

 in pots, and lightly covered with mould, then 

 plunged into an old tan hot-bed, and covered by 

 glasses. In this mode the plants will be up in 

 April, when they should be often but sparingly 

 watered, and kept free from weeds. 

 - As the hot season proceeds, the plants should 

 be shaded during the heat of the days ; but in 

 warm weather open all night to receive the dew, 

 and only covered in the middle of the day. In 

 this mode the plants become strong the first 

 summer. In the beginning of October they 

 may be shaken out of the pots, and their roots 

 carefully separated, planting them singly in 

 small pots filled with light earth ; then plunging 

 the pots into an old bark-bed under a common 

 frame, carefully shading them from the sun in 

 the middle of the day, and giving them water 

 as they require : in this bed the pots should re- 

 main during the winter, exposing them to the 

 open air whenever the weather is favourable ; but 

 in frosty weather they should be covered, so 

 as to protect them. In the spring following 

 they may be removed to a gentle hot-bed, which 

 requires no other covering but mats. This 

 enables them to make strong shoots early in the 

 summer, by which they become in abetter con- 

 dition to bear the cold of the succeeding winter. 

 In this bed they should continue during the sum- 

 mer,and be well protected in the followmgwinter. 



After the plants are become two or three feet 

 in height, shake them out of the pots, and 

 plant them in the open ground in the places 

 where they are to remain, which should be done 

 in April, that they may have taken good root be- 

 fore the winter, which is apt to injure them when 

 newly planted out ; and as all the earth about their 

 roots is thus preserved, they will succeed better. 



The plants are tolerably hardy, and seldom 

 hurt, except in extreme hard winters, which 

 often destroy the young tender branches, but 

 rarely the roots. 



They delight in a generous but not too moist 

 soil, as when planted in drv ground they seldom 

 produce much fruit : the flowers coming forth 

 in autumn, when the winter proves severe, they 

 are generally destroyed ; consequently, to ob- 

 tain fruit, they should be placed in warm situa- 

 tions, and where the ground is not naturally 

 moist ; a good quantity of loam and rotten 

 neat's dung should be laid about their roots, and 

 in dry springs they should be plentifully watered. 



The most proper season for transplanting is 



Scptemher, at which time the blossoms are be- 

 ginning to appear; and when dry at that sea- 

 son, and they are kept moist, they very soon 

 take root ; but towards November their roots 

 should be well covered to keep out the frost. In 

 performing this business the balls of earth round 

 their roots should be preserved. 



In raising the second species the seeds must 

 be procured from abroad, and the plants be left 

 longer in the pots, as three or four years, or 

 until they are become perfectly woody ; and 

 when put out, warm situations be chosen for the 

 purpose, where the soil is dry, as the plants do 

 not succeed well where the land is too moist. 



The third species should he raised in pots filled 

 with bog earth, which should be set out in 

 mpist watery situations. 



In propagating them by the second method, 

 or that of cuttings, they should be made from 

 the young shoots, and be planted in pots in the 

 spring or summer months, plunging them into 

 a gi >d hot-bed of tan or dung till they have 

 strii ken root. 



In the layer mode of propagation the young- 

 shoots should be chosen, as they otherwise sel- 

 dom take root in less than two years. 



In grafting them, stocks of any of the varie- 

 ties may be had recourse to. 



In continuing the double-blossomed and scar- 

 let varieties, some of these last methods must 

 always be employed. 



These are some of the most ornamental plants 

 of theevergreen kind for shrubberies and pleasure- 

 grounds that we possess. The first sort and va- 

 rieties sometimes rise to a considerable height, as 

 ten or fifteen feet. They are now found in most 

 plantations, and in the months of October and 

 November, which is the season when they are in 

 flower, and the fruit of the former year is ripe, 

 as it is a whole year in growing to perfection ; 

 they are very ornamental. When there is plenty 

 both of fruit and flowers upon the trees, they 

 indeed make a handsome appearance, as most 

 other plants are past their beautv. The trees 

 which have large oval fruit make the greatest 

 figure ; the flowers of this being larger and ob- 

 lone;. The variety with double flowers is a cu- 

 riosity: but the flowers, having only two rows 

 of petals, make no great appearance, nor do 

 the trees produce fruit in any quantity ; the 

 other is therefore preferable. That with red 

 flowers makes a pretty variety, when inter- 

 mixed with the other, for the outsides of 

 shiubberies, as they are of a fine red colour at 

 their first appearance, and afterwards change to 

 purple before they fall off. The fruit in this is 

 the same as in the common sort. 



As the leaves of the Andrachne are larger 



