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produce a greater abundance of flowers. When not placed 

 on a wall, they require the support of a stake or trellis. The 

 plant at Bromley Hill is beautifully trained on a frame of 

 iron-work ; the stem rises in the middle of an open shaft 

 or column formed of four rods eight feet high, and from the 

 top of this the branches are carried in all directions over 

 the spreading parts of the frame, which in shape exactly 

 resembles an open umbrella, with an expansion of about six 

 feet. The appearance of the plant thus trained, when in 

 flower, both in spring and autumn, justifies the placing of it 

 amongst our best ornamental shrubs. 



The Glycine Sinensis does not appear to have sustained 

 any injury in the open air in gardens during the last severe 

 winter ; the plants which have fallen under my observation 

 had the protection of mats, but I do not conceive that such 

 covering was necessary ; for one now growing in the late gar- 

 den of my friend Alexander Mac Leay, Esq. at Tilbuster 

 Lodge, in Surrey, that was not so protected, remained unin- 

 jured by the frost, and has since blossomed. It therefore may 

 without doubt be considered as a hardy shrub in our climate. 



The plant is readily propagated by laying the young green 

 shoots in pots buried in the earth, and as these advance in 

 growth, continuing to peg them down into fresh pots, leaving 

 some eyes or buds above the ground ; and thus many plants 

 may be obtained from a single branch. Cuttings both of the 

 wood and of the roots planted in loam, are said to succeed. 

 I believe it has not yet borne ripe seed in this country, nor 

 has any been brought from China. 



It is probably a native of some parts of the Chinese empire 

 distant from Canton, as it seems to be a novelty in the gardens 



