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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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branches. Specimens that have been forced and have ceased flowering, ought not to be cast aside (as isusually done) behind a wall or in some similar place, where they would be neglected, and sufferedalmost to perish. There should always be a kind of reserve garden and yard in which to keepplants of this character conveniently, either in frames or the open air ; and in such a spot theyshould be carefully watered and tended till they have matured their wood, unless it is meant todiscard them entirely. Mimulus cardinalis, and the dwarfer sorts, may be forthwith divided. Most of the shoots ofthe former have roots at their base, and have only to be detached at once to constitute separateplants ; while the shoots of the lower-growing kinds will, if laid down on the soil, and partiallycovered with earth, speedily emit roots, when they can be safely taken off and potted or trans-planted. Annuals may be sown for succession, and the propagation of all woody exotics shouldbe begun in earnest. I
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