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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 pro- 

 gress ; the remaining plants which are not suf- 

 ficiently rooted for removal, must be continued 

 under the glasses, as before directed, till they be- 

 come 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 sharper 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 recommended by Maddock. 



According to the advice of Maddock, " the 

 potting should commence about the middle of 

 March, if the weather is not extremely unfavour- 

 able ; but it should not, on any account, be de- 

 ferred later than the end of that month. The pot 

 is, in the first place, to be half filled with compost, 

 having an oyster-shell, with its hollow side down- 



