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CORRiEA LONGIFLORA. 
Mr. Beaton, in which he strongly recommends, as an encouragement to gardeners 
in the practice of hybridization, that one-half of the proceeds derived from the sale of 
a stock of hybrid plants to nurserymen, should, where such a method of disposing 
of them is pursued, be presented to the individual through whose spirit and skill 
they were originated. In this suggestion we most cordially concur, and would 
still further desire that a reasonable proportion of the specimens, or such a number 
as can be conveniently spared, should be left to the optional distribution or sale of 
the gardener. No gentleman will, we are sure, acknowledge that he supports his 
garden with the view of realizing pecuniary aggrandizement, and the retention of 
two or three of the finer specimens of any superior hybrid will fully recompense 
the proprietor for the expenditure occasioned in their production. 
It was mentioned at the page previously referred to, that C. Harrisii is readily 
propagated by cuttings. The subject now under notice, and a few slightly similar 
ones, are generally increased by some species of grafting. Till very lately, inarching 
was the mode employed. More recent experiment has, however, demonstrated the 
superiority of ordinary grafting, in which the scion is completely severed from its 
parent when about to be united to the stock. C. speciosa or C. pulchella, but 
chiefly the former, will furnish stocks in abundance through the medium of cuttings, 
and the operation is to be effected very early in the spring, as soon as signs of 
growth are detected. The plants may be kept in a slight heat, as directed in a 
succeeding page for other species of exotics, from which they must be gradually 
liberated when the junction is perfect. It will be prudent to insert the graft as 
near as possible to the base of the stem, or within three inches, that there may not 
be so much danger of the specimen being broken at the point of union, and that 
a due degree of dwarf ness and bushiness may be attained. 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, & Co. inform us that they can now supply any desired 
quantity of plants, and our subject is likewise to be procured of those higher 
London nurserymen who make the growth of greenhouse plants of this order a 
part of their profession. 
