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proper soil for them to grow in. To flower tliem well, the cultivator must 

 be sparing of the knife, as the terminating buds of the shoots produce 

 leaves, and the lateral ones flowers : a circumstance noticed by Linnaeus as 

 being characteristic of this genus. 



LUCULIA GRATISSIMA. 



This very fragTant plant is readily increased by cuttings of the ripened 

 wood, and also by layers, either in heat or not. The soil best adapted for 

 it is sandy loam and peat. 



KENXEDYJE, VARIOUS SPECIES. 



These all seed fi-eely when old plants, and from them a plentiful supply 

 of young ones can always be obtained. They also strike by cuttings 

 planted in sand and covered vrith a glass, in a cool place. Peat and loam 

 is the proper soil for all the genus. 



W^ISTERIA CHINEXSIS. 



This splendid flowering plant should have a place in every garden, both 

 in the greenhouse, and on the open wall, where it flowers abundantly, but 

 is sometimes hable to be injured by late spring frosts. It is a veiy good 

 plan to adopt with this plant, to plant it against a wall near to the CameUia 

 house or greenhouse, and to train it not only on both sides of the open 

 wall, but also to introduce a branch of it into the Camehia house 

 or greenhouse, when it will come into flower earher than on the 

 wall, and be secui'e from the frost. The branches trained on the open 

 wall, will flower also in succession ; those on a south aspect first, and be 

 succeeded by those on the north. The plant is rapidly increased by lay- 

 ing the shoots in pots plunged in the ground at the bottom of the wall. 

 It sometimes produces seeds. 



CAPRIFOLIUM JAPOXICUM AND JASMINUM GRANDIFLORA, 



Are both much esteemed for the fragrance of their flowers, and also 

 for their beauty. They are both readily increased by cuttings of the 

 ripened wood, planted in sand, under a glass, in a cool place. They also 

 luxuriate in a soil of equal parts of hght loam, peat, and ver^^ rotten 

 dung. 



