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in congenial soil in summer, renovate the plants, which could 

 not be done by any other means of culture. 



Propagate the Bouvardia, by cuttings of the roots, which are 

 managed as follows : fill some large pots with good fresh mellow 

 loam, well blended with either thoroughly rotten dung or vege- 

 table mould, and plant the roots all over the pot, beginning in a 

 circle round the outside, opening the soil and planting them with 

 the finger, continue to fill up one circle within another, till it is 

 finished in the centre pot or pots, leaving no more of the roots 

 visible above the surface than the top, when planted and watered, 

 place them in a hothouse, where the temperature at night is kept 

 at 70 degrees. As soon as the shoots get to between four and 

 five inches high, I pot the plants singly into pots of a small size, 

 and by degrees harden them after they have been established. 

 When they have made some progress after this transplanting, I 

 plant them out into a bed four feet wide, eight inches between 

 the rows, and four inches in the row ; where, if the soil be good, 

 many of them will soon be in flower. They are then treated in 

 the same manner, as directed for the older plants. 



R. Day. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON WATERING PLANTS. 



BY CLERICUS. 



1 



The present season of the year renders a good deal of watering 

 necessary, and as the vigour and beauty of many plants is more 

 or less the result of judicious or unjudicious watering. For se- 

 veral years I have used a good deal of liquid manure water with 

 the greatest success, I am confident its advantages are not gene- 

 rally known, or it would be more generally used. 



The mode of procedure I adopt is to water thrice with water 

 in its natural state, and once with the manure water. This pro- 

 portion is found to be congenial to the growth of all my green- 

 house, 6tove, or half hardy plants, I have in pots ; such as Gera- 

 niums, Heaths, Salvias, Diosmas, Calceolarias, Cockscombs, 

 Balsams, Justicias, Linums, &c. &c. I find it most essential to 



