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ACACIA, 
and water up the stems and limbs. It is usually 
raised from seed which should be sown early in 
spring, and the Plants potted as soon as they are a 
few inches high. 
The Mimosa Sensitiva, is a sub-genus of Acacia, 
and a very pretty pot Plant. The seed should be 
sown in April in pots, and placed in a hot bed, and 
when the Plants have a few pinnated leaves, they 
should be potted off in separate pots and kept in the 
bed till they have got well growing. They can then 
be removed into the house, or where wanted, and 
shifted into larger pots as they require it, and trained 
neatly on a wire trellis. They will keep through win¬ 
ter in a light room with about sixty deg. of heat, and 
flower in the spring and produce plenty of seed. 
In default of a hot bed, the seed may be sown in pots 
and placed on a shelf in the conservatory, or sown in 
June, and the pots plunged in the garden up to their 
rims, and in summer they can be taken up and shifted 
into larger pots for winter. 
