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recover. The small shoots, which most commonly grow out at 

 the bottom of the main stem, should be removed to form the 

 plant, and these will answer well for striking. Roots also cut into 

 short pieces, and just covered with earth will, it is said, soon 

 produce plants with far greater certainty than when propagated 

 by any other method. 



1. P. zonale. THE COMMON SCAKLET PELAEGONIUM. Planted 

 out in the open ground in gardens about Calcutta will continue 

 to live a great many years. It is, however, a poor long-stalked, 

 scanty-leaved, weedy plant, never displaying a fine truss of 

 blossom, but only one or two straggling flowers at a time. 

 One or two varieties of this and 2. P. inquinans resembling it, 

 but a lovely species, producing great umbels of scarlet flowers, 

 Mr. J. Scott says, bloom freely now in Calcutta. 



3. P. lateripes. THE IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUM. A very 

 beautiful trailing species, with rich dark-green leaves, and pretty 

 sparkling lilac flowers. Plants raised from seed at Calcutta I 

 have been able to preserve till the following Cold season, when 

 they blossomed freely, but perished in the Hot season that 

 succeeded. 



In a paper communicated to the Agri-Horticultural Society, 

 the scented-leaf kinds are thus distinguished by Mr. J. Scott : 

 4. P. balsameum, leaves palmate, somewhat rough and hairy. 5. 

 P. capitatum, leaves heart-shaped, wavy, and toothed. 6. 

 P. crispum, leaves softly hairy. 7. P. ribifolium, leaves heart- 

 shaped, rough and hairy. Others given by him are 8. P. cucul- 

 latum, leaves kidney-shaped and hairy. 9. P. vitifolium, leaves 

 heart-shaped, scabious, saw-edged. 



CARYOPHYLLACE^E. 

 Dianthus. 



1. D. Chinensis. CHINA PINK. This plant, though perennial, 

 is always in this country treated as an annual. 



2. D. laciniatus. A variety of the last, lately introduced from 

 Japan ; bears very large, beautiful flowers of various colours, 

 single and double, quite scentless. The seeds should be sown in 

 October, and the young plants potted off singly into pots with 

 well-drained soil, and kept under shelter during the Rains, 



