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demand. The trees are usually budded or grafted on 
stocks of the Pear, Quince, Whitethorn, or Medlar, 
raised from stratified seed. 
Me.iantHus (Honey F.Lower).—For sub-tropical 
gardening M. major is raised from seed sown in heat 
in February. Cuttings in spring also strike freely if 
placed under bell-glasses in a warm house. 
MeEton.—Seeds for the first crop are sown about the 
middle of January, and at intervals of three weeks for 
successional crops, by those who have all modern con- 
veniences for Melon culture. Where hot-beds and pits 
and frames have to be relied on and the lights raised or 
moved to give the necessary attention, March or April is 
soon enough to sow the first pots of seed. 
MENYANTHES.—The pretty native fringed-flowered 
M. trifoliata (Bog Bean) can -be easily established at 
the margins of ponds and lakes or in boggy places by 
planting divisions of old roots. 
MertTENSIA.—These beautiful blue-flowered hardy 
plants, of which M. sibirica may be taken as a good 
representative, thrive in sandy peat, and are propagated 
by divisions made in autumn or spring. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM.—OF this large genus there are 
many very curious and a large number of handsome- 
flowered and ornamental-foliaged kinds, and they deserve 
to be much more utilized than they are at present. The 
annual species, such as M. crystallinum, should be sown 
in heat in March for planting out in June. WM. tricolorum 
is best sown in pots or outdoors in a sunny position at 
end of April. M. cordifolium varie gatum, so much used in 
carpet and other bedding, is easily increased by inserting 
cuttings in pots of sandy soil in rather dry heat of about 
60 to 70 degrees in autumn or spring. The shrubby and 
