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MIMULUS MACLAINIANUS. 
The treatment given to M. cardinalis will most probably be suitable to this 
variety ; though it is, perhaps, rather more delicate, and may not be able to endure 
exposure in the winter. The better plan would probably be to keep it in pots in 
the greenhouse. It should be grown in a rich loamy soil, placed in a pot of 
tolerably large size, and watered very liberally. It will be advisable to put the 
pot always in a pan of water. If planted out in the beds or borders for the 
summer, the specimens should be plunged rather deeply in the soil, leaving a small 
basin around their stems, into which water can be freely poured in dry weather. 
The plant is very easily injured if suffered to want water. 
By taking away the offsets, which it produces abundantly, it may be readily 
multiplied. 
