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powerful aroma than the double, and also seeds freely, 

 enabling us to increase by that means as well as by slips. 



To increase by seeds it will be necessary to sow them in 

 April, in a sandy loam, and when six leaves are formed 

 transplant them into four inch pots, which will be large 

 enough to winter them in ; in the beginning of February 

 shift them into one a size larger. 



To propagate from slips it will be necessary to take 

 them off in the months of May and June, after flowering. 

 This is decidedly the best way, when you have a plant 

 whose attractive beauties surpass others. 



The slips should be planted round the pot, for if they 

 come in contact with the sides, the plants will root more 

 readily. Due moisture is absolutely necessary to their 

 striking root. In September pot them off, and treat them 

 the same as seedlings. 



The Wallflower will not stand the severity of the winter 

 in this country ; every precaution must, therefore, be used 

 for their protection ; if not kept near the glass (in a pit) 

 the plant will be drawn up, and its symmetry destroyed. 

 It may be improved by mixing old lime and rubbish with 

 loam. This will have a tendency to harden the wood, and 

 make the flowers more fragrant, than if planted in a rich 

 soil. It is well known that sowing the seed of Mignonette 

 in rich soil has a great tendency to destroy its fragrance ; 

 and 1 think the same theory will apply to most fragrant 

 flowers. 



