CULTURE OF THE GENUS RESEDA. 
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13. April Sowing. — The seeds sown now require still less care than the last ; 
the pots need not be placed in a frame, but on any warm sheltered border, where 
they will merely require the common care of hardy annuals. 
14. Juli/ Sowing, — To be successful in this sowing, plunge the pots up to the 
rim in the ground ; this prevents the soil from becoming over-dry, or the roots from 
being injured by the excessive heat of the weather. 
15. Towards the end of September or beginning of October, the pots must be 
taken up and placed in a frame, and from thence to the situations where they are 
intended to flower. 
16. Sizes of Pots.—The proper sized pots for all the sowings are upright 48's. 
17. Water always with care, except when the plants are in flower, at which 
time they require a good supply. 
18. Tree Mignonette. — {R, odorata fridescens). — This plant does not 
appear to be a distinct variety, for the common mignonette, kept in the greenhouse 
and properly trained, becomes half shrubby, and in every other respect, as far as 
our observations have gone, is without any character by which it may be distin- 
guished from the frutescens. Our plants at Chatsworth sire two feet or more high 
on the stem, and at the top form a good bushy head. 
19. Sow seeds of the common mignonette in March, or make use of some of the 
plants of the February sowing. 
20. The pots most suitable for sowing the seed, to form the tree mignonette, 
are upright 32's, which are about five inches wide at top, and about six inches deep. 
21. Place the pots in a melon or cucumber frame where there is a good moist 
heat, carefully admitting air to them as soon as they are up. 
22. When they have made about four leaves, or are nearly an inch high, thin 
out all the plants except two, one of which must be afterwards pulled up ; but it is 
better to leave them both growing until the danger of damping ofl" is over. 
23. As each plant advances in growth, pick off all the side shoots, leaving the 
leaf at the base of each shoot to assist in the growth of the plant. 
24. When the plants are drawn up, by plenty of heat and moisture, to the height 
of about a foot, they will begin to show flower ; the flowers, however, must be nipped 
off, and all side shoots be removed as they appear. 
25. About a week after the flowers have been nipped off^, remove the plants to 
the greenhouse, where they should have less water but plenty of air. Carefully tie 
each to a thin stick with bass matting. 
26. After a time each will begin to send out another shoot from near the top, 
which must be led up the stick, and all side shoots again nipped ofi^, but the 
bottom leaves again left to assist the growth of the stem. 
27. The plants will now have attained to their proper height, from eighteen 
inches to two feet high ; again cut ofl* the bloom when it appears, and continue 
to keep the plants in the greenhouse. 
28. In autumn they will put forth plenty of shoots from the top, and make 
a handsome bush, and will come into flower early in February, or March^ 
according to the heat in which they may have been kept. 
