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GAINES’ SEEDLING CORRtEAS. 
Fuchsias, Calceolarias, Camellias, Cinerarias, and other plants, yet this mysteriov 
operation is very imperfectly understood ; facts and observations daily demonstrai 
what we said in Mag. Bot., vol. ix., p. 267, that the intermixture of different specit 
of plants by hybridization is quite endless, but as yet the system is scarcely beyon 
its infancy. 
Cuttings of the present subjects strike root, if made of the half ripened wooi 
which are planted in pots of sand, and placed in a gentle heat, under a glass. The 
however grow slowly. Grafting and inarching is therefore sometimes resorted 1 
with advantage ; for this purpose C. alba makes a very good stock, and grov 
quicker by cuttings than any other species. The proper time to graft is early i 
spring, just when the plants show signs of growth. 
