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that more air may be admitted, and when they 

 become tolerably well rooted, the glasses being no 

 longer necessary, should be entirely taken away ; 

 but it seldom happens that all the plants, under 

 the same glass, strike root together : some are 

 generally a few days or a week forwarder than the 

 rest, as will be apparent by their superior growth 

 and verdure; such ought to be carefully taken up 

 and planted in a small pot, for winter preservation, 

 or they may be planted round the sides of large 

 Carnation pots, filled with the compost, where they 

 will soon make rapid progress : the remaining 

 plants which are not sufficiently rooted for removal, 

 must be continued under the glasses, as before 

 directed, till they become so." — Flo. Direct, 



Mr. Hogg considers that piping should com- 

 mence sooner than laying, before the shoots get 

 hard and woody ; he begins about the first of July. 

 Plants raised from pipings he considers as sounder, 

 and more likely to encounter the rigours of a sharp 

 winter, than layers. 



The pots recommended by Maddock for flower- 

 ing plants, should be at least twelve inches wide at 

 the top, six inches at the bottom, and ten inches 

 deep in the inside. Hogg uses pots of twelve or 

 sixteen to the cast, being smaller than those recom- 

 mended by Maddock. 



According to the advice of Maddock, ^' the pot- 



