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Propagation is effected both by cuttings and seeds. Cuttings are made of the 
ripened wood ; plant them thin and shallow, in pots of fine sand. Place the pots on 
a dry, cool floor, and cover them with a hand-glass ; water with great care, and in 
about two months they will have formed roots. If the pots be plunged in a hot-bed » 
or placed in a moist heat, success is very precarious. 
When the cuttings are rooted, pot them off in small pots, and again place them 
in a similar situation and under a hand-glass until they have recovered, and begun 
to grow; then by degrees expose them to the air of the greenhouse. 
Sow the seeds in March or April, cover thinly with light sandy heath-mould, 
and place the pots in a cool dry part of the greenhouse, where they will be shaded 
both from sun and wind ; cover each pot with a piece of slate or glass, or cover 
them with a hand-glass, to prevent the soil drying too much, and by the following 
autumn they will be up. When grown sufficiently, transplant them singly in small 
pots, and place them under a hand-glass, as recommended for potted cuttings, until 
they have begun to grow. 
THE GENUS GLYCOSMIS. 
Amongst the good old-fashioned inhabitants of our stoves, which of late years 
have been displaced, to make room for new plants of a more showy character, 
may be mentioned the various species of Glycosmis. In how few collections any of 
these are to be found ! indeed, it is not improbable but some of our readers may 
have altogether forgotten them ; and yet, they are handsome good-sized shrubs, with 
deep green, shining leaves, disposed in threes and fives on a petiole ; it is true the 
flowers are small, colourless, and inconspicuous, but this is partly compensated by 
their growing in axillary panicles of considerable size, and besides, they are exqui- 
sitely fragrant ; and in addition to the above qualities, the plants bear (especially G. 
citrifolia) a profusion of small, red, sweet- tasted berries ; they are, therefore, 
altogether certainly not to be despised as objects of beauty and interest. 
There are but three species, at present, known to us ; of these G, pentaphylla 
and arborea are natives of Coromandel and the Mauritius, where they grow in the 
woods to twenty feet, or more, high, and become loaded with fruit, about the size of 
our wild cherry, which is there much eaten by birds. G. pentaphylla was brought 
over to this country about the year 1790, and arborea in 1796. G. citrifolia, or, as 
it is often called, Limonia citrifolia, is a native of China, where it grows from four 
to six feet high ; it was introduced about the year 1800. They all require the heat 
of the stove, and are very easily managed. 
The best soil in which to grow these plants, is one-half rich loam, from a pasture, 
one-fourth leaf-mould, and one -fourth very rotten dung ; mixed and broken together, 
but not rendered too fine. In potting, use pots rather large than otherwise, as the 
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