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next! I took one of them, the most flexible of the two, though 

 both of them had made a great deal of wood (so to speak) and 

 twisting it round and round inside a 40-sized pot, a process not 

 accomplished without two or three fractures, till I had left only 

 about six inches of the stem (the top having been cut off,) and 

 that portion having filled the pot with the usual modicum of 

 drainage and light soil, I brought above the surface, pegging it 

 at the curvature to the soil; at the present moment I have not a 

 more thriving plant in my greenhouse, shoots of two or three 

 inches having already pushed from the upright portion of the 

 stem. 



I had some high priced Dahlias which I was afraid I might 

 loose root and branch by the storm and the bad weather, of 

 which 1 anticipated it (ominously as the season has shewn) to 

 be the harbinger. Of these, some ten days or a fortnight later, I 

 took off shoots, which I twisted, not without many fractures, and 

 rooted in the same way, but some of them were so far gone, that 

 I had no ground to hope of success, yet to my surprise, some 

 of these have succeeded and sent up new shoots through the soil, 

 and though the elevated tops have partially faded, the shoots 

 through the soil look as fresh and vigorous as ever, although it is 

 in the depth of December. 



I have thrown these remarks together in great haste, and if 

 you approve of them, you may hear again from 



Edinensis. 



ARTICLE III. 

 ON THE CULTURE OF FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 



BY FLORA. 



Being an old subscriber to your useful publication, and wishing 

 to see it prosper, I have sent you this for insertion if you think 

 fit, and should it be accepted, I may continue at times to forward 

 you others of the same nature, and particularly on Florists' Flow- 

 ers, which is, or ought to be, the leading article in your Maga- 

 zine. 



My garden is in a low damp situation, rather shaded by trees, 

 and to keep up any tolerable show of bloom in the season is not 

 accomplished without some attention and skill, and as the detail 



