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be given to the stems; a uniform and 

 haniisome appearance will arise from 

 tlie practice, and the plants will require 

 fewer supports and less pullin^j about 

 at the time they receive their final 

 dressing. The flowers should be so 

 arranged as to present an equal dis- 

 tribution of bloom over the leaf of the 



About the end of July, having removed 

 all Pelargoniutns to the back of a north 

 wall, commence cutting them down, 

 arranging the prunings as cut olf alpha- 

 betically for the convenience of finding 

 the sorts. When cut remove them into 

 a shed; on the following morning com- 

 mence planting the cuttings. The 



plant, to effect which the stems must scarlet ones put into sixty or small 



be secured to small willow twigs." 

 Gard. Vhron. 



forty-eight pots, and place on a flue, 

 within a green-house, where they re- 



Grafting. — Mr. J. Alexander, of quire very little water until they are 

 Heath Farm, Alley, has grafted the ' struck, when remove them to a cold 



Pelargonium very successfully, and his 

 method is as follows : — 



" Graft in August or September, 

 using pretty well ripened wood of the 

 same year's growth ; cut back the stock 



frame ; give them plenty of air, and 

 keep them there till the beginning of 

 November, when stow them away in a 

 vinery intended to be forced about the 

 beginning of February. At th.it time, 



kinds than on their own roots." — Gard. 

 Chi'on. 



to about three inches long, and in ten or earlier, repot them and place them 

 days afterwards graft in the manner of^ in another vinery to be forced. By 

 whip-grafting, and tie with bast and turning-out in time they are nice plants. 

 clay, over which put a little moss to The cuttings of other sorts put in smaller 

 keep the clay from cracking, and to pots, and plunge in saw-dust on a gen- 

 preserve the whole in a moist state, tie hot-bed made of leaves covered by 

 being occasionally sprinkled with wa- ' a frame; give a litle water to settle 

 ter in a shadowy part of a vinery, and the mould about the cuttings. They 

 in a month the grafts begin to grow ; \ require very little after, as the greatest 

 put into a cold frame for a few days, enemy is damp ; frequently give a little 

 then take out of the pot, and all the j air. They require scarcely any shad- 

 earth being shaken from the roots, re- [ ing, unless the sun is very hoi. After 

 pot in fresh soil, and treat as the other they are struck they receive the same 

 Pelargoniums. Weak growing sorts treatment as the scarlet ones." — Gard. 

 grow stronger when grafted on robust Chron. 



Growing for Exhibition. — Mr. Cock, 

 the florist, ofChisvvick, one of the most 



Where the saving of space in the j successful cultivators of this flower, has 

 green-house is desirable, two or more i published the following directions : — 

 Pelargoniums may be grafted upon the " Strike the cuttings the beginning of 

 same stock. As many as ten have June, or sooner if the plants are suffi- 

 been thus united. Pelargonium ele- ciently strong to allow taking two or 

 gans and Beauty of Ware have been three shoots ort" without injury. Ab 

 employed successfully as stocks. Cleft- soon as they are rooted, pot them in 

 grafting succeds as well as whip-graft-! sixty-sized pots, and remove them to a 

 ing. Worsted may be employed in- j shady situation, or place them in a cool 

 stead of bast ; and inarching is even a iVame, shading them constantly when 

 better mode of propagating than graft- : the sun is out, until they have taken 

 ing. fresh roots. Next transfer to an open 



Growing in Open Ground. — Mr. J. situation, and place on slates or boards. 

 Murdoch has given us the following As soon as the plants will bear the sun 

 directions on this head : — without flagging, stop them. In Scp- 



" Put the cuttings into small pots at temher repot them into forty-eight sized 

 once, which obviates any check they pots, and at that period commence 

 would receive when removing them, | training them into the forms you intend 

 cither from cutting-pots or the open them to have. In December or Jan- 

 ground ; make beds of mixed varieties, uary, those which are sufliciently strong 

 chiefly the Old Graveolcns, Fair Helen, are shifted into sixteen-sized pots, al- 

 Lady Essex, Emily, and Moore's Vic- lowing plenty of potsherds for drain- 

 tory, which flower freely all the sum- , age ; the others do not shift till March, 

 mer, and though not so gaudy as some, In these pots they remain to flower, 

 have a more delightful fragrance. — 1 About the middle of July, or the begin- 



