THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



DECEMBER 1st, 1840. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ON PROPAGATING THE TREE P(EONY. 



BY L. 



In the last number of your useful Cabinet, I observe an article on an 

 easy and successful method of propagating the Tree Poeony, by a 

 gentleman of Italy. 



As I have been very successful in raising it from cuttings, in 

 a somewhat different manner from the Italian gentleman, I take the 

 liberty of sending you my mode of practice. 



Having two very large plants in pots, that have been forced the 

 last five years, and were become inconveniently tall, I therefore, in 

 February last, cut down and placed them in a forcing house. They 

 soon sent out a great many shoots, but without blossom-buds. 

 Having selected a few of the strongest to remain on the plants, I cut 

 off all the others, when about two or three inches long, with a very 

 small portion of the old bark to each; and, having some pots filled 

 with a rich light soil, I inserted the cuttings without taking a leaf 

 from them. After sprinkling them with water, I covered them with 

 bell-glasses, and placed them in a shady part of the house. They 

 were occasionally sprinkled over head afterwards, but water was 

 more frecpuently poured on the glasses, which, running down the 

 sides, moistened the soil without wetting the leaves. 



I potted them off in July, and had the satisfaction to find that not 

 a single cutting had failed. The pots were so filled witli roots, that 



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