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NAT. ORDER. PERSONATE. 
There is a variety of this plant with small flowers. Several other 
species of this genus are equally deserving of cultivation. 
Propagation and Cviture. All of the plants contained in this 
order succeed best in such soils as are rich, and rather inclined to 
moisture. The seeds should be sown in pots, of light fresh earth, 
early in the spring, plunging them immediately in a moderate hot-bed 
of tan ; when the young plants appear they should be placed in 
warm sheltered exposures until the autumn, when they require the 
protection of frames and glasses^ or of a good green-house, free air 
being admitted when the weather will admit. After the plants have 
attained sufficient growth in these situations, they may be removed 
from the pots and planted out in the nursery, protection being given 
them in the winter season when it proves severe. 
Some, however, prefer raising plants of this sort by setting the 
cuttings of the young shoots early in the spring, in pots of the same 
earth, plunging them in moderate hot-beds till they have stricken 
full root, water and''shade being occasionally given them, gradually 
as the summer advances inuring them to the full air in order to 
harden them. On the approach of autumn, they should be taken 
under cover of some sort when the weather is severe. In the spring 
following, they may be, if necessary, planted out where they are to 
stand, or be put in the nursery ground. In all the kinds, the plants 
raised from seeds are much longer before they produce flowers than 
when they are propagated by layers or cuttings of the flowering 
plants. 
The chief culture, after the plants are fully established, is that of 
cutting out all the small, weak shoots of the preceding year, in the 
winter season, and shortening the stronger ones to the length of 
about two feet, in order to induce flowering shoots to be sent out for 
the ensuing season. These plants are all of long duration, when 
carefully managed. 
