194 FOSTER’S GIPSY BRIDE PELARGONIUM. 
vious Volumes, we deem it unnecessary to devote much space here on 
the subject. 
About the first week in July is the best time to cut in the stock 
plants for next year’s blooming, and, at the same time, to put in cuttings 
for the young stock of next season. 
For a week previous to cutting in let the plants be kept so dry as 
only to be preserved from withering injuriously, this gives a check to 
the sap and prevents the wounds from bleeding, the cut parts will also 
heal the sooner. As soon as they are healed water them over head, 
and give a little water at the roots, place them ina close situation, and 
they will soon push vigorously. When the new shoots are about an 
inch long, and the ball is in a dry condition, shake off all the soil and 
cut in rather closely all the roots, leaving as many of the fibrous as can 
consistently be retained with a proper pruning away. Re-pot the 
plants in an open soil of loam and leaf mould, having a free drainage. 
If they are placed up to the rim in a frame where there is a little 
bottom heat, say a frame on an exhausted hot-bed, it promotes an early 
pushing of the roots, and as soon as these are thus excited a free admis- 
sion of air should be given. 
The cuttings may either be inserted in pots, in equal parts of loam 
and leaf mould, and then be plunged in a frame, be kept close, and 
shaded from the sun, or they may be inserted in an open border, in a 
warm sunny situation, being shaded for a time at the middle of the 
day. Ina month or five weeks the cuttings will be rooted; they must 
then be carefully removed so as to retain all the roots, and potted sepa- 
rately, into a compost consisting of equal parts of good rich loam and 
sandy peat, not sifted. Place them in a warm situation on boards, or 
in a cool frame; and with due attention, by the last week in September, 
they will be nice plants, when those that are in the open air must be 
taken into a cold frame or pit. As soon as the plants are well esta- 
blished the leading shoots must be stopped, to induce the production of 
side shoots, and cause the plants to become bushy. 
When the pots are well filled with roots let the plants be shifted into 
forty-eights, keeping the ball entire, in a compost of equal parts of good 
turfy loam, which has been laid in an heap for six months or more, 
well chopped, and add a good portion of well-rotted manure mixed with 
it from the time of its “being laid in an heap, and the other half to 
consist of leaf mould and sandy peat, to which is added a small portion 
of bone dust. 
The plants require shifting again into the pots they are intended to 
bloom in ; some celebrated growers do this about the middle of February, 
and others defer it to the middle of March ; the state of the plants as 
to the roots, &c., will best point out the time it should be done, Plants 
which have the shoots stopped about the beginning of March will 
bloom in July and August. 
Those plants cut-in in July, from which cuttings were taken, ought to 
be re-potted as soon as the pots are well filled with roots. The young 
shoots must be thinned away at an early stage, only leaving just enough 
to fill up the plant so as to forma compact “bush. ‘The surplus shoots, 
if cut off carefully, will strike roots in a sandy loam. The plants 
