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method 1ms been practised on all the branches, a good watering 

 should be given to settle the mould about them, and frequently 

 repeated when the season is dry. 



When the layers thus formed have stricken good roots, which i s 

 mostly the case in six or eight weeks, they should be taken off with 

 the root-fibres as entire as possible, and after having the sticky parts 

 about the bottom and the top leaves trimmed off, be planted out 

 either in pots or beds, in the latter method at six or eight inches 

 distance, with a dibble, a good watering being immediately given, 

 and repeated every two days for ten days or a fortnight till the plants 

 become well rooted. They should be removed from these beds with 

 balls of earth about their roots in the beginning of the autumn into 

 small pots, to have shelter during the winter, and in the early spring 

 be placed in large ones for flowering; but when there is room, it is 

 a better practice to plant them at once in the pots, as frequent trans- 

 planting injures their growth. Some florists, however, think it bene- 

 ficial. 



The less fine sorts may at the above season be planted out in the 

 clumps, borders, or other parts, or be left in the beds for flowering. 



These flowers may likewise be increased by cuttings or pipings 

 in the manner directed below in raising pinks. 



In the winter management of the plants, the fine potted sorts 

 should about November be removed under the protection of a deep 

 frame covered with glasses, and plunged closely together in a slight 

 bed of old tan, dry sand, or earth. In this situation they should have 

 a free admission of air when the weather is mild, but be covered in 

 frost, and care should be taken that there be no stagnation of mois- 

 ture, by the holes in the bottoms of the pots being obstructed. 



The flowers in the beds should be covered by mats or other con- 

 trivances when the weather is severe at the same season. 



In the spring their culture should be continued by removing 

 those fine varieties planted out in small pots in the autumn into large 

 ones for flowering, and such as have remained in the nur&ery-beds 

 into the borders or large pots nine or ten inches over at top, to afford 

 flowers, in each of which the business should be done by preserving 



