200 OS RAISING DOUBLE STOCKS FROM CUTTIXGS. 



with a fine-rosed watering pot. I also let them have all the* warm 

 showers that fall, from the middle of February to the middle of 

 March. 



There are a few points I have not mentioned, as space will not 

 permit ; but, however, if you deem this worthy of a place in your 

 extensively circulated Magazine, I shall forward you my method 

 of raising seedlings, of which I grow a great many. 



February, 1834. A Middlesex Amateur. 



ARTICLE V.— On Raising Plants of Double Stocks 

 from Cuttings. By Olitor. 



It has often been a matter of regret and mortification to others, 

 no doubt, as well as to myself, that, in our endeavours to produce 

 double flowers of the Stock by seminal propagation, we frequently 

 and unavoidably meet with disappointment. 



Two years ago, the idea occurred to me of propagating this 

 favourite by cuttings, from plants producing double flowers: The 

 practice may not be new, but as far I am aware it is not common. 

 1 have practised two methods of taking cuttings, and with equal 

 success in striking them, but I much prefer the one to the other, 

 as I find the two methods produce very different plants ; tha t 

 which T consider the best, is to take the cuttings when the plants 

 are in full bloom. On the side shoots producing the flowers, beneath 

 the existing corymb, another — and frequently two other — shoots 

 are produced ; take off those shoots at their lower joint, before they 

 show flower, with a sharp knife cut off the two lower leaves, insert 

 them in pots half filled with any light, rich compost, and treat 

 them as other soft wooded cuttings. When well rooted, pot them 

 off in pots of sizes proportionate with the progress they have made, 

 and they will make plants equal in symmetrical beauty to any 

 raised from seed, and flower more abundantly. The idea of 

 propagating Stocks from cuttings may at first sight appear tedious 

 or tiresome, but it will not be found so in practice ; besides, there 

 are other advantages to be derived from it, which are not so strictly 

 within our reach when propagating from seed, viz. the certainty 

 of commanding groups of this lovely flower — all double, ami the 

 equal certainty of perpetuating any favourite or peculiar variety. 



