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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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sphere till they have formed good new shoots, when theyshould be rapidly passed to the greenhouse, and from thence to a frame or pit, which can ulti-mately be left open almost continuously. The stock to fill the flower-garden and borders next summer must now be thought of. Whereplenty of frames for preserving it in winter are possessed, propagation cannot, after this, bebegun too soon. Fuchsias, Heliotropes, Calceolarias, and the extensive tribe related to them inhabit, can be increased forthwith from cuttmgs. A little prepared stable litter, made into ahillock, and covered first with pieces of inverted turf and then with soil, or sawdust, or old bark,will serve to support a few hand-glasses or a frame, and to afford heat enough both for multi-plying the above common plants, and also the more simple greenhouse and stove species. Thecuttings can be planted in a bed of earth, or, what is better, placed in pots, which should be plungedin either of the before-mentioned materials. ■ /V^i
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