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commonly increased. It may also be propa- 

 gated by laying down the branches, which 

 will be well rooted in one year, when they 

 may be taken from the old plant, and placed 

 where they are to remain. The cuttings will 

 also take root, if taken in the spring before 

 they begin to shoot, and planted in a loamy 

 soil, not too stiff. These require to be co- 

 vered with hand-glasses until they put out 

 shoots, when air must be admitted to them. 

 But the plants raised by these means seldom 

 produce much fruit ; and therefore it is more 

 desirable to cultivate them by seed, which 

 should be sown upon a good hotbed in the 

 spring ; and when the plants are fit to re- 

 move, they should be planted in small pots, 

 filled with good kitchen-garden earth, and 

 plunged into a bed of tanners' bark. The 

 following spring they may be turned out of 

 the pots, and planted against a wall in a 

 south aspect. 



POMEGRANATE. — See Pomariam Britannkunk 



