By Joseph Sabine, Esq, 



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one. Whilst the plants are attaining their proper size, they 

 should be shifted progressively into larger pots, and may ul- 

 timately be left in those of about six inches diameter at top. 

 They will require the protection of a green-house, and will 

 continue to bloom through the winter, care being taken, as the 

 flowers decay, to cut away the flowering branches, in order 

 that a succession may be produced, and this operation must 

 be regularly performed, unless it is wished to obtain ripe 

 seeds ; by this process, a succession of crops of flowers will be 

 obtained throughout the year. One of the plants which 

 Lady Whitshed first introduced, bore three sets of flowers 

 between November and the following June, this plant is now 

 four years old, and the stem of it is an inch in circumference. 

 It is generally necessary to keep the full grown plants well 

 watered, and they will, with ordinary care, and protection 

 from damp and frost, last several years, though, as they are 

 easily raised, a succession of young plants is desirable, for 

 such are more productive of good flowers. 



There will be some inducement to cultivate this plant on 

 account of its singularity, but the great advantage to be de- 

 rived from it, is the continuance of its fragrance through the 

 winter, in which particular, at that season, it far excels the 

 common Mignonette under the best management. A single 

 plant in flower will fully perfume any room in which it is kept. 



A comparison of the different plants raised from seed in 

 their progress of growth, has convinced me that the Tree 

 Mignonette is distinct, as a variety from the common kind. 

 I have purposely left them in the same situation, and allowed 

 them to grow without control ; whilst the common Mignonette 



