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remarks on the culture, having grown it with considerable 
success. 
Cuttings of young wood, taken off when about three inches in 
length, will strike readily in a mixture of sand and peat, or leaf 
mould, covered with a small glass, and plunged in a gentle bottom 
heat. When the cuttings are struck, which may be known by 
their beginning to grow, pot them off into small pots (Go’s), using 
a mixture of peat and leaf mould, in about equal parts, with a 
little sand ; let them remain in a gentle hot-bed, or some warm 
place, for a week or ten days, watering them gently as they 
may require it; then remove them to the greenhouse, and as soon 
as the roots have filled the pots, shift them into a size larger, with 
the same compost, adding a little loam, which should be increased 
at each shifting, until they are placed in large pots, by which time 
they will be at least four or five feet high, if attended to, and 
bearing a profusion of bloom, which, from its pendulous habit 
amid the ample foliage, is extremely beautiful. As the season 
advances, they may be removed out of doors with other green¬ 
house plants, where they will continue in flower the whole of the 
summer. 
In the Autumn they should be re-potted with the other plants, 
cutting off the matted roots, and filling up with good fresh 
earth, in the same proportions as before, and placed in the stove, 
if there is one on the establishment, where they will still continue 
to bloom ; thus amply repaying the trouble and attention bestowed 
on them, by a continual succession of curious and very handsome 
flowers. 
R. P. 
Rectory Place, Fulham. 
‘ The Botanist* relates the following interesting particulars of this 
genus;—The genus Sida, from which Abutilon has been separated, 
comprises, if we include Bastardia, Gaya, and Abutilon, (as is still 
done by De Candolle and others,) about two hundred species, many 
of which are accustomed to unfold their flowers at such stated 
hours, that Bory de St. Vincent asserts, that from the single genus 
Sida, a dial of flowers (horologium jlorce) might be constructed, 
so accurate that, between the tropics, the hour of the day might 
be ascertained by it. 
The leaves of some of the species exhibit perceptible changes 
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