This beautiful and highly odoriferous plant, is one of the most neglected subjects in cultivation: a good specimen is as scarce as a Queen Anne's farthing; and he is a lucky man who ever possessed one, if, indeed, he be not lucky who has ever seen one. Its habit of growth is, perhaps, the very worst that can be imagined, if it be neglected; and we never saw a large one that was not so. Its general growth is with naked steins that will not support themselves, with a bunch of short branches towards the end, too thick to grow well; and three out of four of the bunches of flowers on old plants, are deformed or cocks-comb like, and so crowded that the flowers cannot open. Young plants may, however, be grown better, if properly worked, and carefully managed; and when a specimen can be got not too long in the legs, and with half a dozen bunches of bloom, it is not only pretty, but of exquisite fragrance, and tolerably lasting. We have tried to bring old plants into shape and decent growth, until we are almost tired. There is but one proper remedy, and that is to cut them down; but this will not always answer; sometimes they will not break, and the plant is lost; at other times we have been more successful.

We now, when we get hold of an antiquated specimen, with its crooked stems bending in all directions, and its bunches of green at the ends, sink the pot in a pit, lay some of the branches, and inarch others on spurge laurel, and so make it at least answer the purposes of propagation. If it breaks near the bottom, so much the better; because, when we release all the layers and grafts from the old stock, any little growth there is greatly strengthened, and we make the most of it. We have, in some instances, found them break well all after the branches were cut back to a few inches from their base; and when we saw how they were breaking, we have been able to preserve as many shoots as would make a good bushy plant, and rub off or cut away the rest. In growing them, they must not be excited; the slower they grow the better, so that they do grow. A cold pit is the best protection, because it keeps off rain, or admits it, according as it may be wanted or otherwise, and it can be made to keep off frost, without wanting fire heat. The soil for these plants should be loam from rotted turves, two-thirds, and one-third equal proportions of cow-dung or horse-dung thoroughly decayed, and turfy peat. These should be chopped, and rubbed through a very coarse sieve, that would let a bullet through.

In cutting down old plants, or before submitting them to the process of laying or inarching, they should be turned out of their pots, and put into larger ones; but if they are to be cut back at once, they may be root pruned if necessary, and for this purpose a good deal of the ball must be removed, and, as soon as it is changed, the plant, or rather the stool of the plant, should be placed in a house of rather warmer temperature than a common green-house, for eight or ten days. There are many good nurseries, at which they have not a single specimen of this very excellent plant. They seem to us to do better upon their, own bottoms, than they do worked; for sometimes we have seen a good, many that have gone off among a far less quantity that stood. Whether this has arisen, from the stocks not being worked in a proper state, or their not being well established we have yet to learn: we have had many that have stood for years with care and proper eul-. ture. Young plants should be kept cool when they have once fairly started. They can not be better provided for than in a common garden-frame, with a light over them to take off and put on at pleasure.

The branches should be thinned if they come too thick, and they want a little regulating and pruning; but it must not be forgotten that the blooms come at the ends of the branches, and therefore that, although branches may be thinned out, none must be shortened till after they have bloomed. When they have done flowering, they may be trimmed into shape, and left to make their proper growth*