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found growing in mountainous districts, flowering from 

 May to July. 



The Ncpaul species will grow twenty feet high, and is 

 decidedly the best in cultivation, producing scarlet and 

 crimson flowers, truly gorgeous in appearance, and equal 

 to velvet in richness ; and the flowers are abundantly 

 supplied with a liquid sweet as honey. They may be 

 increased by layering, inarching, or budding, and by 

 seeds, as they are found to seed freely. They ought to 

 be highly appreciated on that account, by which means 

 many fine hybrids have been raised. To grow from 

 seeds, the soil should be one part sandy loam and two 

 parts leaf mould. In sowing, great care should be taken 

 not to cover the seeds with the soil, as they are very 

 minute ; never water them except with a syringe, so as 

 10 imitate dew as much as possible, and keep them cov- 

 ered with a purple colored bell glass. When the seed- 

 lings are to be transplanted, add a little more loam to 

 the composition, and the plants should be well supplied 

 with water while growing. After your seedlings are 

 potted off, treat them the same as the Camellia Japoni- 

 ca ; the treatment of both being similar. 



RAGGED ROBIN. 



(LYCHNIS DIOCEA.) 



This is a perennial flowering plant, a native of Eng- 

 land ; its name is taken from the ragged appearance of 



