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for sowing they should be inclosed in wax. Seedlings begin to bear 

 from the third to the sixth years. 



Varieties are inarched, grafted or budded on other stocks. In- 

 arching from a bearing tree to a seedling is an old practice, but 

 laborious and slow. Budding on seedlings about a year old may be 

 performed on pot-grown stocks or on plants that have been trans- 

 planted to the nursery row. 



Mangosteen (Garcinia Mangostana). Guttiferce. 



Grown from seeds, and said also to strike from cuttings of ripened 

 shoots under glass in sand. Seedlings should be protected from the 

 sun. The selected forms can be inarched on seedlings of mangosteen 

 and also on stocks of related species of garcinia. 



Manihot. Euphorbiaceos. 



Propagation is by cuttings of rather firm shoots under glass ; some 

 kinds by root-cuttings ; by seeds when securable. For the propaga- 

 tion of M. dulcis var. Aipi, see Cassava. 



Maranta. Marantacece. 



Increased by division of the crowns in spring. Cuttings may be 

 potted in equal parts of loam, leaf -mold, sharp sand and a small 

 part of broken charcoal. Some of the plants known as maranta are 

 properly species of calathea, which see. 



Marguerite, or Paris Daisy (Chrysanthemum frutescens and C. 



anethifolium) . Composites. 



Increased by seeds or cuttings, as described for chrysanthemum, 

 which see. 



Marica. Iridacece. 



Handled by ^division of rhizomes started under glass or with 

 bottom heat. 



Marrubium (Horehound). Labiates. 



Increased by seeds, in early spring, or division. Seeds of horehound 

 (M. mlgare) should give good plants the following year for cutting. 



Marsdenia. Asclepiadaceoe. 



Cuttings made in spring when the plants are primed, struck under 

 glass. 



Martynia (Unicorn Plant). Martyniacecs. 



Raised from seeds, sown where the plants are to grow, or started 

 under glass in the North ; frost-tender annuals. 



