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the leaf-plant.—( BryophyUum calycinum.) 
tiply them; passion-flowers, oranges, and even 
roses and geraniums, have been made to form 
young plants from their leaves, but with these, 
other methods of propagation are more practi- 
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LEAF WITH YOUNG PLANTS. 
cable. In Bryophyllum, the leaf contains suf¬ 
ficient nutriment to supply the young plants 
until they get two or three inches high, but if 
it is desired to save them, they should soon be 
show of flowers: the young plants are set in 
the open ground in spring, where, after a while, 
especially late in the season, they grow with 
great rapidity, and become very robust; before 
there is danger of frost, the plants are taken 
up and potted, a change which they mind very 
little, and placed in a greenhouse, or window, 
for the winter, where they will require to be 
but sparingly watered. The plant is well cal¬ 
culated to endure the dry and heated atmos¬ 
phere of our dwellings; its stately appearance 
when well grown, and its interesting manner of 
propagation, make it a desirable window plant. 
Tlie Jujube. 
Among tbe exotics that have been introduced 
from other warm countries into our Southern 
States, is the Jujube, which has been sufficient¬ 
ly long established in several localities to pro¬ 
duce fruit. The plant, belonging to the same 
family with the Buckthorn, is botanically Zity¬ 
phus vulgaris; it is a native of Asia, and is 
called by the Arabs Zizuf , which, being Latin¬ 
ized, affords the botanical name, and it is said 
that the name, jujube, is from the same word 
through the French. It, when full}' developed, 
forms a handsome tree 20 or 30 feet high, but 
is of very slow growth, and is more frequently 
met with as a shrub. The branches, which are 
the JUJUBE.— {Zityphus vulgaris.) 
are succeeded by a fruit about the size and 
shape of an olive; this, in ripening, first be¬ 
comes yellow, and at length reddish-brown, and 
contains a hard, bony stone, surrounded by a 
fleshy pulp. When the fruit is gathered before 
complete maturity, and while yellow, the pulp 
is pleasantly acid, and it is used in Europe as a 
dessert fruit, but when perfectly ripe, it is very 
sweet, and in this state is used b}’ French con¬ 
fectioners to make pastes, syrups, and other 
confections used to allay coughs, a purpose for 
which the dried fruit is also eaten. Jujube 
paste, made from the pulp of the fruit with 
gum and sugar, was formerly imported, but it 
was soon imitated by a paste made of gum and 
sugar, without the jujubes, a little tartaric acid 
being used to give a slight acidity; later it was 
made without any gum, and the article now 
sold as jujube consists of gelatine and sugar, to 
which tartaric acid and some aromatic oil is 
added to flavor it. In this country, the fruit is 
not likely to become very popular, as we have 
an abundance of better kinds, and the tree 
must be classed with the ornamental rather than 
with the fruit trees. In France, the tree is 
about 30 years in coining to full bearing, and 
on this account the few established plantations 
are found profitable, as there is a demand there 
for the dried fruit, which is not likely to exist 
here. The specimens from which tbe engrav¬ 
ing was made were brought us, several years 
naturally propagate themselves in this manner, 
quite a number of greenhouse plants may be 
made to do so artificially, and for some bego¬ 
nias, gloxinias, and several succulent plants, it 
is the method resorted to by gardeners to mul- 
set out in good soil. Though not rare in col¬ 
lections, and as a window plant, the Bryophyl¬ 
lum is not often seen in flower, mainly for the 
reason that it is almost always kept in pots. By 
the following treatment we always have a fine 
remarkably slender, are furnished with sharp 
prickles, which disappear with age; the oval, 
alternate leaves are thick, of a shining green, 
and strongly nerved. The flowers are very 
small, yellowish-green, and inconspicuous, and 
