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CULTURE OF THE WAMPEE TREE. 
It is a stove plant, and associated by botanists with the Orange tribe (Auran- 
tiacece). In temperature and general treatment, it may be classed with Euphoria 
Litchi, Anona Cherimolia, Jambosa vulgaris, Spondias lutea, &c, a moderate heat 
being most congenial to its habits and nature. 
The soil, if the plant be grown in a pot or tub, should be composed of two parts 
good rich loam, one part peat, and one part very rotten horse-dung, with plenty of 
drainage ; but if it be turned out into a prepared border in the stove, a good rich turfy 
loam, without any other admixture, is all that is requisite. 
The treatment in all other respects is that of common stove plants. Our speci- 
men at Chatsworth, which is about nine feet high, is planted out at the south end of 
the large conservatory, at no great distance from the flue, where it can receive some 
little advantage from the heat to its roots. 
Cuttings of the ripened wood, with their leaves unmutilated, will strike root, if 
planted in pots of sand plunged in heat under a hand-glass. 
Two varieties are known, one bearing fruit somewhat of an oblong form, the 
other nearly globose. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE WOODCUT. 
a Plant, of the Wampee Tree (Cookia punctata), 
b Detached branch, showing the inflorescence. 
c Part of a bunch of fruit of the oblorg variety. 
d A fruit of the globose variety. 
