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p. moutan chrysanthemiflora, rose and spring place them where a little artifi-
Compte de Paris, dark rose
and yellow.
elegans, white and sulphur.
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cial heat is used ; they will then begin
to grow and make good plants, fit for
planting out in the autumn.
By Layering, which is performed
hericartiana, bright rose and in the following manner
rosy white.
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Select, either in October or Februa-
lacera, bright rosy red. ry, some of the bottom shoots which
— jutea variegata, rosy white are of the preceding year's growth;
and yellow.
tongue and peg them down in the usual
lutea alba, rose and cream. way, covering the layers, about three
papaveracea, white.
inches, with a mixture of light sandy
plenissima, li- peat, leaf-mould, and a little water in
lac.
dry weather ; but they must remain for
pumicea, carmine.
two years attached to the mother-plant.
Rawesii, pink,
There is another way of layering the
rosa-gallica, rosy red. tree-paeony, which is by selecting early
in spring some of the bottom branches
or stems, ringing them, with a sharp
knife, about one inch above and below
each bud, upon the stems; every bud
will then occupy two inches of the
stem, which is obstructed above and
below. In ringing remove, in the usual
way, a small ring of the bark all round
the stem. The branches, so prepared,
are then laid in the same way as the
preceding, and the plants will be fit to
separate in one year; but they will not
be so strong as those raised in the preceding
manner. The Chinese are said
to practise building the rarer ones, on
the more common kinds, with great
success ; but that statement seems ra-
• rosea, pink,
plena, red.
semiplena, red.
speciosa, pink.
- striata, rose and
rosy white.
sulphuria,
ing white.
sulphur' becomvariegata,
white and purple.
All the shrubby kinds are increased
by cuttings, the same as is detailed
hereafter in the cultivation of the tree
paeony. The herbaceous kinds are
propagated by dividmg the roots ; and
new varieties of all are raised from
seed. A rich light loam suits them.
Tree-P^eony. p. moutan. Dr.
Lindley's directions for cultivating this ther doubtful,
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are as follow :
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" Fro7n Seed.—This can only be done
"Propagation.—It is easily increas- to increase the single ones, as the
ed, and in several ways, when
plants are rather large and old ;
the
but
semi-double ones do not produce perfect
seeds, or at least very seldom. When
when they are small and young it is perfect seeds are obtained, shortly after
rather difficult, and should not be at- they are ripe, they should be sown in
tempted. They should be rather en- pans filled with a mixture of fresh loam
couraged by watering freely during dry and a small portion of leaf-mould and
weather in summer ; by mulching with sand, which should be placed in a cold
a little rotten dung, and covering with pit or frame, and protected from wet
a band-glass, during the winter
until the following spring, when the
When the plants are of a sufficient seeds will begin to vegetate. If the
size and strength, they may be increas- seeds are not sown until the sprmg,
ed in the following ways:
" By Division.—Take up one of the
they seldom grow before the following
year; and frequently many of the seeds
largest plants about the end of October,
and after shaking all the soil from the
perish before th.it time arrives.
" The seedlings must be allowed to
roots, separate each of the stems which remain in the seed-pans the first sea-
have got any roots attached to them son, and be transplanted the following
with a sharp knife ; then shorten the spring, either into the open border, or
top of each, and pot them in some good singly in pots; and the time they are
rich mould, placing them afterwards in afterwards before they flower depends
a cold pit, where they are tolerably se- upon the treatment they receive, but
cure from frost, and where they can be generally they require two or three
kept dry during the winter. la the years.