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removed to prevent their damping. Take five or 
six-inch pots and fill with a compost of friable loam, 
leaf-mould, and sand, pressing it moderately firm ; 
plant with a small pin from six to eight cuttings 
evenly around the sides of the pot, making the soil 
firm about them; water with a fine rose to settle 
the soil, and place the pots at once into a frame 
with a gentle bottom-heat, where they can be kept 
close and constantly shaded from the sun. Sprinkle 
them over with a fine rose, or syringe daily for the 
first week or nine days. In about three or four 
weeks the cuttings will have rooted, when they 
should be potted singly into three-inch pots, and 
again placed in a frame with a gentle bottom heat. 
Here they should remain nine days or a fortnight, 
being shaded and watered as required. When 
rooted round their pots, they should be removed 
into a cold frame to harden, previous to being 
placed out of doors. 
Many hardy kinds, such as the Hybrid Per- 
petuals, Bourbons, &c., may be struck out of 
doors under hand-glasses. About the end of 
September or beginning of October prepare a 
border with light soil upon the north side of a 
hedge or wall ; let the cuttings be made five or six 
inches in length, choosing firm, well-ripened wood, 
taken off with a small portion of old wood to form a 
heel; without this the cuttings will not strike so 
readily. Put the cuttings in thickly, pressing them 
firmly into the soil; well water, and place over them 
small hand or cap glasses ; these must remain on 
until the cuttings are struck in the sprmg. An 
