border, and not suffered to run up fully to flower ; 

 but as soon as the flower stems have advanced eight 

 or ten inches in height, cut them down as close to 

 the ground as possible ; and as they shoot again to 

 have them also cut off; for by stopping their up- 

 right growth in this manner, the roots are induced 

 more readily to throw out young offsets from their 

 sides, which will be well formed by the beginning 

 of the autumn, when the whole root should be taken 

 up, and the offsets separated from it, and planted 

 out in a nursery bed at about six inches distance, 

 in order to continue until the beginning of autumn, 

 or the following spring ; at either of which timrs 

 they should be carefully removed, with good bulls 

 of earth about their roots, to the places where they 

 are to grow for flowering. This mode of treatment 

 will be found peculiarly advantageous. 



Such of the flower stems as are thus cut down oc- 

 casionally, for the purpose of increasing the number 

 of offsets, may be formed into cuttings of proper 

 lengths, and planted out in a shady border, deposit- 

 ing them two parts within the ground, and about 

 three inches asunder, water being given at the time, 

 and repeated as there may be occasion. 



In most cases, a number of the cuttings will have 

 stricken good root, and formed shoots at the tops in 

 the course of six or eight weeks. But in order to 

 promote their taking root, in a more effectual man- 

 ner, they ought to be covered closely with bell or 

 hand-glasses as soon as they are planted, raising 

 them occasionally as the plants begin to shoot at the 

 tops, in order to the admission of air, to the influence 

 of which they should be gradually hardened. 

 Hort Kew. 2, v. 4, 122. 



