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CURSORY REMARKS. 
Either one or several grafts may be inserted on the same stock, at the option 
of the cultivator ; and the scions can be of one or many varieties. We have seen 
forty different kinds stuck upon the same plant. Although, however, this would 
occasion a most curious object, one variety will be quite sufficient in point of 
ornament. 
A third mode of giving fresh interest to this tribe of Azaleas, is by training 
all the branches, whether of a grafted specimen or one on its own roots, to a 
single face, so as there to concentrate an extraordinary mass of bloom. Intense 
and dazzling effects are thus produced. 
To secure good and satisfactory results, this last process should be commenced 
while the plant is very young, and the branches supple. All attempts to reduce 
an old plant to this system must necessarily have a forced appearance. A number 
of stakes should be put into the soil, along that side of the pot which is to be the 
intended front, and the tender shoots must be tied to these stakes as soon as ever 
they will bear it, with their points standing forward. These points, instead of 
being fastened up the stakes, in the manner of a climber, should be left to push 
themselves forward ; and, when they become too diffuse, a slight pruning will 
make them protrude a number of blooming laterals. 
In these three forms, then, and trifling modifications of each, Azaleas may be 
made to present a very high degree of splendour. And though we have hardly 
space to mention what are the essentials to success in the way of culture, we may 
just mention that an extremely open fibrous soil is the chief of them. Large 
lumps of heath-mould, filled with old roots and vegetable matter, constitute the 
best earth for potting them in ; and a few small species of sandstone will be a 
useful ingredient. Immense quantities of soft water while blooming, a gentle heat 
during the growing period, and the freest current of air and exposure while they 
are maturing their developments, will complete the routine. 
CURSORY REMARKS. 
CULTURE OF BURLINGTO^NIA RI'GIDA. 
In a tribe of plants so numerous as the Orchidacess, comprising species so 
widely differing in form and character, and above all, inhabiting countries and 
situations as various as their general appearance, it is natural to expect some that 
require a treatment peculiarly their own, to bring out their full vegetative powers, 
although the major part readily adapt themselves to one common routine. And, 
even though a tolerable degree of success attends the usual practice in the culture 
of Orchidacese generally, and many species even grow with a luxuriance equal to 
that exhibited in a state of nature ; there are yet many which do not adapt them- 
selves to artificial treatment with so much facility, but grow with difficulty, and 
flower rarely, and far inferior to their native splendour. It has been remarked that 
