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others at about an inch apart, in pans similar to those in which 

 the seeds were sown. I find the addition of a little moss, over 

 the broken pieces of pots, a great improvement, as the young 

 roots shoot freely into it and are less damaged by transplantation, 

 which operation I perform again in April, in the following 

 manner: — If I have a spare frame I plant them in this, the soil 

 being mixed well together and made light with sand and old hot- 

 bed manure ; or should I have no convenience of this sort to 

 shelter them for a few weeks, I plant them in the open ground 

 under hoops and mats, keeping them covered by night only. In 

 this bed I allow them to flower, and those I admire most I re- 

 move in pots, or plant in the flower-bed, as occasion may require ; 

 and I find that by taking them up with a good ball of earth, and 

 watering afterwards for a few days, they are not at all injured, 

 though transplanted in full flower. By rearing plants in this way, 

 I have the pleasure of supplying many of my friends and neigh- 

 bours with plants which ornament their flower gardens all the 

 summer. Calceolaria. 



August, 1835. 



ARTICLE II. — On raising Mignionette from Cuttings. 

 By A Practical Lady Amateur. 



Being very short of Mignionette this year, though I had sown 

 a quantity, I was induced this July to try the experiment of a 

 few cuttings in transplanting, from the border to some boxes. I 

 have had the pleasure to see the cuttings thrive equally as well as 

 the piuuis wiih roots. The Mignionette was sown in an open 

 border, and the boxes the cuttings were put into were at a window 

 with a north aspect. As soon as the state of the ground will allow 

 of it, I purpose to repeat the experiment in the open border. 



A Practical Lady Amateur. 



Bedfordshire, July, 1835. 



