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places which were layered in the slit manner, nearly one-fourth 

 have been destroyed. Perhaps Pomona will say he has Mr. 

 Hogg's authority for his method, if so, I acknowledge it to be true, 

 and I consider Mr. Hogg the first authority in the kingdom, but 

 I am convinced that if he was to try the other method, (so far is 

 he from being the slave of a system) that he would have no hesi- 

 tation in adopting it. I do not expect that old practitioners will 

 generally adopt the plan, but I woidd have all young florists ab- 

 hor the slit system as much as they abhor a wire worm or ear- 

 wig. — From my Hole in the Wall. 



Humble Bee. 



ARTICLE III. 

 'ROSES PROPAGATED BY CUTTINGS OF THE ROOTS 



BV CLERICUS. 



Having been advised to try the experiment of raising Rose trees 

 by taking cuttings off the roots, I did so, and found it to succeed 

 admirably. The mode I adopted was as follows. The first week 

 in March I took some of the long, thick, and fleshy looking roots 

 of my English and French Roses, and cut them into pieces about 

 three inches long. I then smoothened the surface of a border in 

 front of a peach wall, upon tins I laid the roots flat, at about six 

 inches apart ; when the roots were placed, I covered them with 

 fine sifted soil half an inch deep, gently beating it to the cuttings ; 

 I then laid four inches more of loamy soil well enriched with rot- 

 ten cow dung, a year old, giving the whole a good watering, and 

 when dry, smoothened the surface over with the back of the spade. 

 By the middle of May every cutting had sent one, and some two 

 strong shoots, and on examination, I found the soil I had covered 

 the cuttings with, to be filled with a mass of fine roots ; at this 

 time, July 5th, the shoots are more than a foot high. 



I have anxiously watered the bed, being in a sunny situation 

 I found it got dry, more especially so, having the bed raised upon 

 the old surface of the border, it would have been better to have 

 sunk it so as finally to have it even with the surrounding sod. 



Flora. 



(We have practised the above mode of raising Moss Roses, and 



