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THE GENUS PIMELEA. 
from the fruit with the point of a knife, and dibble each seed the 
sixteenth of an inch into a pot of white sand, cover the seed with 
a little moss, and place the pot in a gentle hotbed; when the 
seed is just vegetated take each seedling with the point of a knife, 
and prick them out in very sandy soil, place them on the top 
shelf of a stove, and keep them shaded, should the sun be power¬ 
ful. By sowing the seed as soon as ripe, you get the seedlings 
to bloom in time to thoroughly test their properties. 
E. F. Fairbairn. 
THE GENUS PIMELEA. 
Our greenhouse collections are very greatly indebted to the 
exertions of botanists and travellers in Australasia, and that part 
of the southern hemisphere, as so many beautiful objects have 
been derived from thence ; but in no instance has the expectations 
of cultivators been more fully realized than in the genus under 
notice. We were told by Mr. Browne some years before the 
majority were known to us, that very handsome subjects of the 
class were in store, and in every case yet introduced it has been 
found to he perfectly correct. It is true from among the number 
of species (thirty) now cultivated in our gardens, w r e may select 
some that are more beautiful than the remainder; but by com¬ 
parison alone is this elfected, for there really is not one of the 
family but deserves a place wherever room can be afforded it. 
Pimeleas succeed to admiration when grown upon what is 
termed the “ large shift system,” that is, the transfer of a young 
plant from a small pot into a larger one at once, and the soil should 
he a mixture of peat, loam, and silver sand, in about equal quanti¬ 
ties ; the hole in the bottom of the pot should be broken to near a 
third of the diameter of the bottom ; for it is very seldom they 
are made large enough, and yet it is most essential for the escape 
of superfluous water ; over this hole let a hollow piece of broken 
pot be placed so as to cover it, and round and above it a stratum 
of potsherds of three inches in thickness, then a layer of the 
roughest portions of the peat, and on it the compost previously 
described, mixing with it, as the process goes on, a number of 
