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It grows freely in the open border, if sown in spring, but 

 does much better if suffered to scatter its own seed in the 

 autumn, on the places destined for its growth ; by this me ans, 

 it is not unusual to see it springing up with great luxuriance 

 in the interstices of the stone pavements of yards in the 

 fronts of houses in towns, which it most agreeably enlivens 

 and perfumes. 



Its cultivation in pots, and in winter, has been well detailed 

 by Mr. Rishon, in the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society* My object, in introducing it to the notice of this 

 Meeting, is to offer some observations on a variety recently 

 brought to this country, which has the appearance of a dwarf- 

 shrub, and possesses some properties, besides that singularity, 

 which entitle it to the attention of the Gardener. 



The Tree Mignonette has been supposed to be only the 

 common annual, trained to a single stem, with the support 

 of a stick, to a certain height, and then suffered to shoot and 

 form a head, which it will certainly do ; but the plant so 

 trained is very inferior in form, habit, and odour, to the Tree 

 Mignonette. I consider the latter as an established variety, 

 capable of reproducing itself from its own seed. It has been 

 long known on the Continent, and I believe was some years 

 since sent to the Hammersmith Nursery by the late Profes- 

 sor Brous sonet, but was not preserved there long. We 

 owe its present introduction to Lady Wiiitsiied, who brought 

 two full-grown plants with her from Liege, in the autumn of 

 1816, one of which was exhibited at our Anniversary last 

 year. The plant immediately attracted the attention of the 

 Editor of the Botanical Register, who soon after published 



* See vol. ii. page 374. 



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