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winter, — say about the end of October ; and there should be put in place of it a 
quantity of dry soil. The plant may then be covered with dry saw-dust, and the 
pot set over it with the hole well stopped, to prevent the entrance of rain or snow* 
Let it remain there until the beginning or middle of March, and then take away the 
pot and saw-dust, and put some good fresh earth about the roots. Place a hand- 
glass over the plant for a few days, until it will bear exposure. To propagate this 
species, take up the plants in the beginning of October, shake the soil from them, 
and break the roots into small pieces about one inch and a half long : plant about 
six of these pieces in each forty-eight sized pot, filled with good light soil, made 
rather dry. Set them in a frame, and give them no water throughout the winter ; 
in March begin to water them, very gently at the first, increasing the quantity as 
they grow, and they will soon become fine plants. The (E. anisoloba is a fine 
showy plant, but unless well protected through the winter, after the same manner 
as CE. ccespitosa , it seldom survives. It thrives best in peat and loam. If the 
seeds be sown in the beginning of March on a hot-bed, and the plants be taken up 
with a trowel in bunches, and placed in the borders at the end of April, they will 
flower in June the first year, and produce plenty of seeds. All the other perennials 
are very easy o r culture ; and, with the exception of CE. fruticosa, finacrocarpa, 
Missouviensis, pallida, glauca , an A Fraser i, will grow in any common soil. These 
six species, however, require to be planted in sandy peat earth ; they may all 
be increased by cuttings, taken off in May, and planted in light rich soil under 
a hand-glass, by seeds, and by division of the roots ; but in this last method care 
must be taken not to mutilate them too much, or they will not grow healthily. 
CULTURE OF KENNEDIA RUBICUNDA. 
This plant should be potted in a mixture of sandy loam and peat. It requires 
moderate watering ; that is, it should never be allowed to become very dry ; and if 
on the other hand too much water be given, the plant will be sickly, and the soil 
will be covered with moss, which ought never to be allowed to grow. It is a 
creeper of the easiest culture, and will grow in almost any situation in an airy 
greenhouse ; but New Holland plants will not thrive in heat. A healthy plant 
would derive benefit from being set out of doors in a shady situation during summer 
month, but a sickly one would not. 
CULTURE OF THE GENUS CITRUS. 
This genus contains the Orange, Lemon, Shaddock, and Lime, all of which are 
green-house or conservatory plants, and require very similar treatment. The C. 
medica is thought by some uniters to have been cultivated in Italy so early as 
