SMOOTH HIBISCUS, 
Five species, four of which are of the Cape 
of Good Hope, and the fifth is of South Ca- 
rolina, require the protection of the Green- 
house, Cape-stove, or glass-case. The rest, 
being far the greatest number, or three-fourths 
of the whole, must be kept in the bark-stove, 
where some of them will make a splendid 
figure. The principal mode of propagating 
these, is by seeds sown in a good hot-bed in 
the spring ; and the plants afterwards put into 
pots filled with light earth, and plunged into a 
fresh hot-bed : treating them, afterwards, in 
the same way as the Amaranths. The more 
tender sorts must be plunged, in autumn, into 
the tan-bed; where they must be kept, and 
treated, like other tender plants from hot cli- 
mates, and have very little water in winter. 
Several of these sorts will produce seed in a 
good hot-house. Most of them may also be 
propagated by cuttings ; particularly, the China 
Rose, which is esteemed the most beautiful of 
the whole genus. 
The Smooth Hibiscus, or Hibiscus Specio- 
sus of the Linnaean system, which is the plant 
represented in the annexed figure, is specifi- 
cally 
