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placed that the leaves with which they are furnished will not come 

 in contact with each other. After being slightly watered, they 

 should be placed in the frame on the surface of the soil at first, and 

 after a week, when they have somewhat call used over, the pots 

 should be plunged almost the whole of their depth in the bed. 

 When the cuttings have taken root they must be repotted into 

 single pots, as has already been directed for other plants. The soil 

 used on this occasion should be fine sandy loam and leaf-mould, with 

 a considerable portion of rotten dung. When the plants are well 

 established in the pots, they must be hardened off, and prepared for 

 undergoing their wintering treatment in the cold frame. 



Verbenas. — We are almost doubtful whether to treat of the 

 Verbena in this division of our subject or not, for it is a plant 

 which may be propagated so readily without the aid either of 

 a frame or hotbed, simply by pegging down the shoots in the open 

 border, and roots will be emitted at almost any joint. As culti- 

 vators are not very fond of disturbing the order of their flower 

 beds, so long as they can have flowers in them, we cannot expect 

 that they will remove any of the plants before the frost has set in 

 upon thsm. To make sure, therefore, of a stock for planting out 

 in May or June following, there should be a goodly quantity of 

 cuttings put in about the end of July or beginning of August. The 

 same instructions that have been given for other soft-wooded 

 plants will be equally applicable to them ; and as our space is 

 becoming rather limited, we must say as much as we can in few 

 words. As regards Cinerarias, Chrysanthemums, Petunias, Hydran- 

 geas, and other plants, which are generally termed " bedding plants," 

 they may all be managed in the same way ; we shall, therefore, 

 not enlarge upon this subject. It may be as well, however, 

 before leaving it altogether, to remark that great attention must 

 be paid, during the process of propagation, to see that ihe cut- 

 tings are well shaded, for if exposed, even for a short time, to the 

 influence of a summer sun, it is ten chances to one if a whole frame- 

 ful of cuttings is not entirely ruined. 



(To be continued.) 



THE PAMPAS GRASS. 



[HERE is scarcely a garden of any pretensions that is not 

 by this time adorned with the magnificent Gijnerium 

 argenteum, or Pampas Grass. Unlike many other newly- 

 introduced exotics, this has had no ordeal of adverse 

 opinions to endure in establishing its claims to general 

 admiration. The only point about which there was any uncertainty 

 was as to its hardiness, aud that point is settled to the satisfaction 

 of the inhabitants of the most northerly districts of our island, for 

 it endures the extremest severity of the British winter, and to some 

 extent is indifferent as to the aspect in which it is grown. At the 

 Crystal Palace it forms a striking feature for the fronts of shrub- 



