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within an inch of the top. The seeds were placed 

 near the centre, upon the soil, and covered 3-8ths of 

 an inch deep with the same kind of soil, mixed with 

 a little charcoal dust and sharp sand, to prevent its 

 binding. The pot was plunged to the rim, at front 

 of the fruiting pines, in the stove, in a very moderate 

 heat of barely 80 degs. at that time, and the atmos- 

 pheric heat kept about 60 degs. or barely so much. 

 The surface of the soil was covered with a bell glass. 

 The seeds quickly vegetated, and the seedlings were 

 above the surface like sturdy grass plants, in the course 

 of twenty days from the time of sowing. They were 

 pricked into thumb pots, making use of the same 

 kind of soil, rather sandy and open with charcoal, the 

 thumb pots placed each inside another pot, filled 

 with porous rooty soil, and then plunged to the rim 

 again in the same situation, under a bell glass ; 

 watering and giving air as they required it, dispensing 

 with the glass altogether as they became established, 

 and shifting them into larger pots when necessary. 

 By the month of March, in the following spring, they 

 were become sturdy plants, with leaves 5 or 6 inches 

 in length, thick and fleshy, and were placed amongst 

 the other succession plants. They differed materially 

 from each other, and not one resembled their parent, 

 the true Enville variety, either in countenance, colour, 

 or habit, of plant or foliage. Each plant fruited 

 within two years and a half from the time of sowing 

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