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glasses be constantly wiped it will soon strike root. If any should 

 happen to damp off let it be instantly removed, or probably it may 

 endanger the whole. As soon as the leaves begin to put out young 

 shoots, take the glass off and remove them to a dry hut for a few days 

 previous to potting off. 



8. Suckers.- — Exotics, similar to Pitcairnia, Aloe, Yucca, Til- 

 landsise, &c, after they have clone flowering, generally produce in 

 the summer months suckers for propagation, either from the stem or 

 roots. These can be carefully taken off in the following spring, 

 potted, plunged, and otherwise treated as root divisions. 



9. Plant Divisions. — The exotics that are generally propagated 

 by this mode are deciduous herbaceous kinds, as Lobelia unidentata, 

 lutea, and campanuloides, Sowerbea juncea, and such like. The 

 plants are best divided when they receive their summer potting, and 

 then their divisions can be potted into separate pots, and placed along 

 with their fellow-denizens in their proper departments. I have 

 endeavoured to illustrate by the above loose hints (for such they are) 

 the principal modes of increasing exotics used by propagators, with 

 the way each mode may be performed with success. 



REVIEW. 



Tfie Lady's Country Companion, or, How to enjoy a Country Life 

 rationally. By Mrs. Loudon, author of " Gardening for Ladies, 

 8)~c." with an Engraving on Steel, and Illustrations on Wood. 

 London, Longman and Co., 1845. 



(Concluding Notice) 



The following* observations upon Cape bulbs and on the utility of 

 a reserve garden, may be read with advantage, "as also may the re- 

 marks on the management of annuals, for which, however, we must 

 beg leave to refer our readers to the work itself, the extracts we have 

 already given being a sufficient indication of its general merits. In 

 conclusion we have only to observe that to all those desirous of 

 " enjoying a country life rationally," the book will be found an excel- 

 lent guide, and it has our most cordial recommendation. 



" Many persons fancy that the Cape bulbs require to be taken up 



