By Mr. John Street. 



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In the following spring they may be separated and planted 

 out in the borders to flower ; they are thus more likely to 

 produce seeds than if kept in pots in tbe common way. 



Of Canna Indica I have put out several plants annually, 

 during a period of eigbt or nine years past, in the open bor- 

 ders in rich earth ; they grow, blossom, and ripen seeds, 

 growing near five feet high. Some years this plant sows 

 itself. I have collected two ounces of seed which ripened in 

 the open borders in one season. The seed I sow every year 

 in open ground, in coarse vegetable mould, on a clay bottom 

 on a cold exposed situation, in the following manner. About 

 the middle of the month of May, I dig the earth, and make a 

 drill, as for Peas, about two inches deep ; I then put in the 

 seeds, lay on the earth and press it, so as to leave the drill 

 rather concave, or hollow, to enable it to retain moisture ; no 

 covering is requisite, but water is given in dry weather. The 

 plants appear in five or six weeks, even when the seeds 

 are some years old ; I let them remain until November, when 

 they are become strong, and then take up the plants, with 

 balls of earth, and put three or four in rather a small pot, 

 and keep them in a glass house, giving them larger pots as 

 they grow bigger. These plants begin flowering at one year 

 old, and may be put out in the open border in the end of 

 May, or in June, if the weather is then fair. 



Jasminum revolutum, a native of China, has endured the 

 last three or four winters in the open air, under a wall, and 

 begins to flower freely the end of May, or early in June, but 

 has not produced seeds yet. Teucrium flavum, from the 

 south of Europe, I put out under a low south wall, in the 

 spring of 1816; it endures the severest winters in poor dry 



