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are propagated by cuttings or by grafting on stocks of the female 

 variety. M. Baltet says : "When stocks are scarce, or wanting, 

 prepare cuttings of A. japonica, and at the same time cleft- 

 graft them on the crown or side with the variety to be pro- 

 pagated, placing them under a cloche. The graft becomes 

 united while the cutting is forming roots." The Garrya may 

 be successfully cleft-grafted or veneered upon the Aucuba. 

 Graft under glass in heat from October to February, or bud 

 in August. Where large bushes are well fruited, it is possible 

 to cut off fruiting branches a foot or more in length, and these, 

 if prepared like cuttings, inserted in small pots, and plunged 

 on a gentle bottom-heat of 60 or 65 in a close frame, may 

 be rooted in a month or six weeks. This method is useful 

 for securing fruiting plants in small pots for decorative pur- 

 poses, and is best performed in November and December, after 

 the berries are fully developed. 



The following is a good selection of the male and female 

 varieties ; but all the kinds vary from seed quite as much as do 

 Crotons, and some of the varieties of these are nearly as hand- 

 some, and quite hardy : 



MALE AND POLLEN-BEARING KINDS. 



A. japonica viridis, leaves dark green. 



A. bicolor, leaves with golden blotches. 



A. maculata, leaves with golden spots. 



A. macrophylla, leaves large, bright green. 



A. marmorata, leaves blotched with yellow. 



A. sulphurea, leaves spotted with creamy yellow. 



A. angustifolia, long lance-shaped leaves. 



A. angustifolia maculata, long lance-shaped leaves spotted with yellow. 



A. himalaica, leaves deep green. 



FEMALE OR BERRY-BEARING KINDS. 



A. japonica vera, green-leaved type. 



A. macrophylla, having larger leaves. 



A. viridis, leaves bright green. 



A. viridis fructo-albo, green leaves, white berries. 



A. longifolia, leaves long, narrow, dark green. 



A. latimaculata, leaves blotched with yellow. 



A. ovata aurea, broad golden-spotted foliage. 



A. salicifolia, leaves long, narrow, glossy green. 



A. sulphurea, leaves dotted with creamy yellow. 



A. aurea marginata, leaves spotted and edged with yellow. 



The Aucuba first fruited in this country in Mr Standish's 

 nursery at Ascot in 1863, Mr Fortune having sent the male 

 plant from Yeddo about a year previously. 



Hermaphrodite Aucubas have occasionally been raised from 



