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ROSA ALBA. 



Belle Clementine, Eliza, Ferox, Fanny Sommerson, Fe- 

 licit'e Parmentier, Josephine Beauharnais, La Seduisante, 

 La Remarquable, Sophie de Baviere, Victoria. 



The colours of this last beautiful section vary from white to a deep 

 flesh colour. 



I hope the above list will meet the wishes of " Azalea ;" should 

 the descriptions of other kinds be required, I shall have pleasure in 

 giving them. 



ARTICLE III. 



OBSERVATIONS ON STRIKING CUTTINGS OF PLANTS. 



(Translated from a Communication by an anonymous Writer in the "Journal des 



Connoissances Van dies, .") 



BY AMICUS. 



In the month of March, 1829, I disbudded several plants of the 

 " Daphne Laureola," and left the buds scattered on the ground 

 beneath. A month or five weeks afterwards I was not a little sur- 

 prised to find that they had almost all sent out roots. This hint 

 induced me to make experiments upon other plants ; and at the end 

 of April I took several slips of the " Lagerstraemia Indica," which 

 had just burst forth, and had advanced to the length of from twelve 

 to twenty lines, taking care to reserve with each a small portion of 

 the parent bark. I then stripped them to the extent of seven or 

 eight lines from the base upwards, and planted them in a pot filled 

 to the depth of two inches with broken potsherds, and above with a 

 compost, two years old, of willow mould, the refuse of the vintage, 

 and pit-sand well washed. They were then well watered, and 

 placed in a hotbed under a bell-glass, and care was taken to shade 

 them and give them air when necessary. The first fortnight several 

 damped off from the glass, not having been properly attended to; 

 but on the twenty-second day after they were planted, I found that 

 the rest had passed from the herbaceous to the half-woody state, 

 and the terminal bud seemed to announce that there would shortly 

 be a rise of the sap. Six days after this I pricked them out into 

 small separate pots, and discovered that each had made a thick tuft 



