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J "> white four-petalled flowers, with large yellow eye formed 

 o .s numerous crowded stamens, which scent the air with 

 delightful fragrance for a wide distance around. Propagated 

 by seed, which must be sown where the tree is to remain, as 

 the- young plants, it is said, do not bear transplanting. 



Calophyllum. 



C, inophyllum Sultana Chumpa. A tree of considerable size, 

 with most noble foliage of large, elliptical, rich, polished, dark- 

 green leaves ; bears in June drooping racemes of large, white, 

 delightfully fragrant flowers; succeeded by numerous large 

 ^eds, from which it may be easily propagated. 



HYPERICACE.E. 



Hypericum. 

 ST. JOHN'S WORT. 



1. H. Chinense. A small bushy shrub, two feet high, with 

 neat pleasing foliage of narrow elliptical leaves, two inches long, 

 nearly constantly in blossom, with cheerful, bright-yellow, many- 

 stamened flowers ; propagated by division. 



2. H. pallens. A poor little weedy plant, about a foot high ; 

 valueless for the garden. Also is met with 3. H. patulum. 



NYMPHJEACE^. 



This and the following Order consist entirely of aquatic 

 plants, some of which are very ornamental in a garden that has 

 water suited to contain them. Most may be raised from seed. 

 Sow the seed in a shallow earthen pan, such as a flower-pot 

 feeder, filled with earth; and then place this pan into a 

 somewhat larger and deeper vessel, which must be carefully 

 filled, and afterwards kept constantly supplied with water. 

 When the seeds have germinated, remove the small pan of 

 earth containing them from the larger vessel, and cautiously 

 lower it, just as it is, in the piece of water where the plant is 

 desired to grow. 



Some of the small species may be grown in large earthen 



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