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A light sprinkling of water will be required occasionally, to maintain 

 the soil in a moderately moist condition ; but it must not be satu- 

 rated with water, or it will become sour and the seed will perish. 

 Tilt the glass a little, when a fair proportion of the youug plants are 

 visible ; and in about a week afterwards, remove it altogether. To 

 prevent over crowding, when the plants are strong enough, prick 

 them off into pans or pots filled with light compost, and from thence, 

 pot them off separately in three-inch, when about an inch in height. 

 Keep them in a shady position, until they have recovered from the 

 effects of the shift, and then remove to an open position, and stand 

 the pots upon a bed of coal ashes. After the first week in October, 

 considerable risk will be run, if they remain in the open, therefore, 

 soon after the end of September, remove them to a frame where they 

 can have an abundance of air in mild weather, and protection from 

 frost, when required. The stock can be wintered in a greenhouse 

 very successfully, but the plants must have the advantage of a light 

 and airy position, and must not be crowded up with other plants. 

 "When they become drawn during the winter, the lower leaves usually 

 fall off in the spring, and the plants present a somewhat unsightly 

 appearance in consequence. One of the most essential points is to 

 guard against their becoming pot-bound, or their suffering from 

 drought ; but they must not be over-potted or over-watered. If the 

 pots, in which they are put from the seed pans, are moderately well 

 filled with roots prior to the end of October, shift them into pots 

 one size larger, otherwise do not re-pot them until the middle of 

 January, and then put them into six-inch pots. As it will not be safe 

 or convenient to plant them out before the end of May, re-pot them 

 in April, and put the largest sized plants into ten-inch pots, and the 

 others into eight-inch. A few of the smallest may be put into pots 

 six inches in diameter, and they will be found useful for mixing with 

 the flowering plants in large rustic baskets, or for the centre of small 

 terra cotta, or stone vases. 



For the characteristic sketch of this useful old plant, we have to 

 thank Messrs. Hooper and Co., Central Avenue, Covent Garden, in 

 whose catalogue we observe that seed is entered at sixpence ; so 

 that it may be truly said to be within the reach of all classes. 



Propagating Geraniums from Leaves — Mistletoe or Wistaiua. — Possessing 

 a plant of the ivy-leaved geranium " L'Elegante," I was desirous of increasing the 

 stock. I accordingly struck a number of cuttings. Amongst these I placed in the 

 cutting-pot, as an experiment, a single leaf, with no portion of the main stalk or a 

 bud attached. '1 his leaf has struck, and has now become a good-sized plant. But 

 the foliage is totally different from that of the parent plant, which has leaves of a 

 glossy green colour, with a narrow white margin. In the plant raised from the leaf 

 there is no edging to the leaves, and they are entirely green, with the exception of 

 a dark bronze blotch in the centre of the oldest leaves. The plant has not yet 

 flowered, and I shall be curious to see whether the blossom will differ from that of 

 the original plant. Another fact has recently come under my notice, which is new 

 to roe, and may possibly prove of interest to your readers. In the garden of P. P. 

 Williams, Esq., of Stoke House, near Tenbury, I have lately seen a spray of 

 mistletoe growing upon a Weigelia ; as the branch upon which it is growing is a very 

 small one, it seems difficult to imagine how the seed of the mistletoe can have found 

 a resting place upon it. (Rev.) Seymour Y. Williams. 



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