HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 109 
mucli longer than the young ones. Another consideration that should not 
be overlooked is, that during winter when every inch of space is ■wanted in 
the plant houses, this one can be stowed away under the staging in the 
cellar or any place where it can be kept from freezing, and moderately dry. 
Like almost all of the family, it is a native of the New World, and but, 
for its altitude, the warmer portion of it. It was first introduced into 
England somewhere about the year 1837, or '38. If botanists are correct, 
there are yet others to be introduced, still more beautiful. 
PROPAGATION AND CULTURE. 
As every plant must have a beginning at some one time, we commence 
with the cutting. As the object aimed at is to get as large a plant as 
possible the first season, it is desirable to commence early, say by the first 
of February, to put in the cuttings. To do this, it will be necessary to place 
an old plant in the stove about New Year's, and as soon as it has pushed 
sufficiently to get cuttings, take them ofi' with a slight portion of the head 
attached, and insert in pots, with two or three inches of white sand on the 
top. Place them under a bell-glass or small frame, where they will soon 
commence rooting, which may be known by the tops assuming a darker 
green, and commencing to grow. Shake them out of the sand, and repot 
into three-inch pots, using for soil light turfy loam and decayed leaves or 
vegetable mould, equal parts, with a good portion of sand, all incorporated 
together. 
It will not be long before they require another shift, and so on successively 
till the end of May. The pots may be at least two sizes larger at each 
potting, and well drained. The points of the shoots should also be stopped 
two or three times. By the first of May, the green-house will be getting 
vacant, and the atmosphere more congenial to their requirements. They 
should be kept on the front shelf, and allowed abundance of room to keep 
them from getting up leggy. They will now have become nice little bushy 
plants, and need tying out as often as the branches become crowded, so as 
to give the foliage as much exposure as possible. They will require fre- 
quent syringing, which will impart a healthy, vigorous foliage. After the 
first potting, the leaf soil may be dispensed with, and good rotten manure 
used instead, but one-third instead of half in bulk ; when, if the potting has 
been sufficiently liberal, and other things attended to, by mid-summer a 
plant will have been obtained, that no person need be ashamed to be the 
