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GAINES' SEEDLING CORRiEAS. 
Fuchsias, Calceolarias, Camellias, Cinerarias, and other plants, yet this mysterious 
operation is very imperfectly understood ; facts and observations daily demonstrate 
what we said in Mag. Bot., vol. ix., p. 267, that the intermixture of different species 
of plants by hybridization is quite endless, but as yet the system is scarcely beyond 
its infancy. 
Cuttings of the present subjects strike root, if made of the half ripened wood, 
which are planted in pots of sand, and placed in a gentle heat, under a glass. They 
however grow slowly. Grafting and inarching is therefore sometimes resorted to 
with advantage ; for this purpose C. alba makes a very good stock, and grows 
quicker by cuttings than any other species. The proper time to graft is early in 
spring, just when the plants show signs of growth. 
