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Propagation is effected both by cuttings and seeds. Cuttings are made of the 
rii tied wood ; plant them thin and shallow, in pots of fine sand. Place the pots on 
a |y, cool floor, and cover them with a hand-glass ; water with great care, and in 
it two months they will have formed roots. If the pots be plunged in a hot-bed > 
laced in a moist heat, success is very precarious. 
When the cuttings are rooted, pot them off in small pots, and again place them 
similar situation and under a hand-glass until they have recovered, and begun 
to; row; 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, 
at place the pots in a cool dry part of the greenhouse, where they will be shaded 
bo i from sun and wind ; cover each pot with a piece of slate or glass, or cover 
ti n with a hand-glass, to prevent the soil drying too much, and by the following 
ai imn they will be up. When grown sufficiently, transplant them singly in small 
pn, and place them under a hand-glass, as recommended for potted cuttings, until 
tl t have begun to grow. 
THE GENUS GLYCOSMIS. 
Amongst the good old-fashioned inhabitants of our stoves, which of late years 
hi3 been displaced, to make room for new plants of a more showy character, 
n r be mentioned the various species of Glycosmis. In how few collections any of 
tl se are to be found ! indeed, it is not improbable but some of our readers may 
k 3 altogether forgotten them ; and yet, they are handsome good-sized shrubs, with 
do green, shining leaves, disposed in threes and fives on a petiole; it is true the 
fl/ers are small, colourless, and inconspicuous, but this is partly compensated by 
tl r growing in axillary panicles of considerable size, and besides, they are exqui- 
si ly fragrant ; and in addition to the above qualities, the plants bear (especially G. 
difolia) a profusion of small, red, sweet-tasted berries; they are, therefore, 
a gether 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 
a arbor ea are natives of Coromandel and the Mauritius, where they grow in the 
v ids to twenty feet, or more, high, and become loaded with fruit, about the size of 
o wild cherry, which is there much eaten by birds. G. pentaphylla was brought 
or to this country about the year 1790, and arbor ea in 1796. G. citrifolia, or, as 
i often called, Limonia citrifolia , is a native of China, where it grows from four 
t iix feet high; it was introduced about the year 1800. They all require the heat 
o the stove, and are very easily managed. 
The best soil in which to grow these plants, is one-half rich loam, from a pasture, 
0 fourth leaf-mould, and one-fourth very rotten dung ; mixed and broken together, 
1 not rendered too fine. In potting, use pots rather large than otherwise, as the 
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