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SCUTELLARIA JAPONICA. 
months, and merely placed in a cold pit during winter. It is an excellent plant 
for mixing with a potted collection of Alpines, being of small dimensions, great 
beauty, a most liberal bloomer, lasting in flower a great length of time, and having 
blue blossoms, which are not very common in that class. It may also be culti- 
vated with extreme ease, not being at all delicate, and simply requiring the 
commonest soil. 
As a border plant, however, it will attain to a higher perfection than in a pot, 
and may possibly prove useful for planting in beds or patches. These it would 
cover with bloom throughout the summer. 
It can be increased by cuttings, or by division ; or, if a small portion of earth is 
drawn up around the partially trailing shoots, so as almost or wholly to cover them 
at the bottom, these will most likely root in the manner of Verbenas, and may 
afterwards be taken off. It will be desirable to test its hardiness by leaving a 
plant or two exposed in the following winter. 
