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Propagating Eugenia ugni. — Eugenia ugni is propagated by cuttings of 

 the half-ripened wood. The points of the young shoots should be taken off, 

 when the wood has become somewhat firm, about three inches from the end 

 of the shoot, or in the condition known to gardeners as half-ripe. The cuttings 

 should be about three inches long, and should be cut across below the lowest 

 leaf with a sharp knife, and have the leaves removed half-way up the cutting. 

 They may then be inserted round the sides of a six-inch pot, half filled with 

 crocks, and then filled to within an inch of the rim with a compost of two-thirds 

 sandy peat, one-third loam, adding and incorporating as much silver sand as will 

 amount to one-fourth of the whole. The pot should be filled to the rim with 

 silver sand, and the cuttings put in up to their remaining leaves. The cutting- 

 pot should be inserted in one of larger size ; and the interval between the pots 

 should be filled with small pieces of broken pots to within an inch of the rims 

 of both pots, which should be on the same level ; and that inch should then be 

 filled up with silver sand. A gentle watering may then be given, and a bell- 

 glass be placed over the cuttings, so that it may rest on the sand between the 

 rims of the pots. The jDOts may then be placed in a mild hotbed of from seventy 

 to seventy-five degrees, or in any house where there is a gentle heat. Shade the 

 cuttings from sun, and tilt the bell-glass a little on one side at night. Care 

 should be taken not to over-water ; but the sand ought to be kept moist. 

 When the cuttings begin to grow, the bell-glass should be gradually raised, and, 

 by degrees, removed ; and the shading must be lessened, and gradually removed, 

 in proportion as the plants or cuttings endure the sun's rays without flagging. 

 When well rooted, the plants should be potted off. It is also propagated by 

 layers. A vigorous shoot, layered in a small pot in spring, will be well rooted 

 by autumn. 



Polymnia pyramidalis. — In Pol)f7nnia py?-amidalis {"■ Revue Hort.," 1S67, 

 211, with fig.) we have what in France is strongly recommended as a plant for 

 the decoration of the summer-garden, along with ferdinandas, verbesinas, and 

 like plants. It is of arborescent habit, attaining forty feet high or more in its 

 native country, which is New Grenada ; in the subalpine districts of which it 

 grows in company with cherries and willows. It is of rapid growth, attaining 

 ten to twelve feet in a season, with a pyramidal head, and large ovate-cordate 

 hairy leaves, which endure well under sunshine, measure about twelve inches 

 broad and sixteen inches long, and are borne on a long decurrent petiole. The 

 flower-heads are numerous, yellow, and arranged in cymes. The plant has been 

 grown in the garden of the Paris Museum, and was raised from seeds obtained 

 from New Grenada by M. Triana. 



Wintering Begonias. — Tliey should be kept in a dry house ; and no water 

 should be given beyond a little now and then to prevent them drying up or flag- 

 ging. A temperature ranging from forty to forty-five degrees is sufficient during 

 winter, as they attain their greatest beauty in summer. When desirable to grow 

 them, they must be kept moist, and in a house with a temperature of from fifty 

 to fifty-five degrees at night, and sixty to sixty-five degrees by day, from fire-heat. 



