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the seed being separated and sown in February, will come up in May 

 or June following. The seeds should be sown in light soil and in a 

 sliady situation, or they may be covered with earth from half to an 

 inch in depth, according to the size of the seeds. Early in the 

 second spring they may be planted in rows from one to two feet 

 apart every way, according to the size of the sorts. Here they may 

 remain till they flower, which varies in the diflferent sorts from the 

 third to the fifth year, but most commonly they flower the fourth 

 summer. 



By layers. The common mode is to lay down the young shoots 

 of the preceding summer late in autumn, or early in the succeeding 

 spring, and then, with the exception of the Moss Rose, and one or 

 tvAO others, they form rooted plants by the next autumn. But it is 

 now found, that if the same shoots are laid down when the plant is 

 beginning to flower in July, they will, with a few exceptions, pro- 

 duce roots, and be fit to remove the same autumn, by which a whole 

 year is gained. Such sorts as do not root in one year must be left 

 on the stools till the second autumn ; but layers made when the 

 shoots arc in a growing state, and furnished with healthy leaves, 

 root much more freely than shoots of ripe wood. After the plants 

 are removed from the stools, they are planted in nursery rows, and 

 ill a year the blossom buds : having been carefully pinched off from 

 the first laying down, they will be fit for removal to their final des- 

 tination. The stools are then to be pruned, and the soil stirred and 

 enriched. 



By suckers. Many of the commoner sorts admit of being rapidly 

 multiplied in this way, and the plants obtained may be planted in 

 their final destination at once. 



By enttings. Most sorts might be propagated in this way from 

 cuttings of young wood, cut at a joint where it is beginning to ripen, 

 and planted in sand and vegetable mould, under a hand-glass. But 

 this mode is only adopted with such sorts as strike easily, as the In- 

 dian and Chinese kinds. 



