452 Propagation of Stove and Greenhouse Exotics. 



pale dots. The flesh is yellowish white, melting, buttery, 

 very sugary and rich, with a musky flavor, resembling the 

 Seckel, or Henri Quatre; on the whole, it mostly resembles 

 the latter, but the skin is thinner and smoother, and the eye 

 is not so much plaited. The end of September and beginning 

 of October is the season of maturity. 



Doijenni Gris (Thiver nouveau. — Rather a long name, but 

 it proved last season to be a very late-keeping pear, and of 

 superior quality. The present season will afford a better op- 

 portunity to test it. 



Art. VI. On the Propagation of Stove and Greenhouse Ex- 

 otics : in a Series of Litters. By James Kennedy, Glardoner 

 to S, T. Jones, Staten Island, New York. 



Letter VIII. Propagation hy Suckers. 



The exotics generally propagated by this mode are such 

 as the Aloe, Pitcairnia, Yucca, 'J'illandsi«, &c. &c., which, 

 after they have done flowering, generally produce, in the 

 summer months, suckers either from the stem or roots. These 

 may be carefully taken ofl" in the following spring, potted off" 

 into separate pots, proportioned to their size, and phmged up 

 to their rims in a mild hotbed, where, if regularly supplied 

 with air on fine days, and shaded when the sun is powerful, 

 they will soon strike root. 



Letter IX. Plant Divisions. 



This is the mode generally resorted to in increasing most 

 deciduous herbaceous kinds of exotics, such as Lobel/'a luiea 

 and campanuloides, ^o\vh.xhi(t, /uncea, «S:c. &c., as well as 

 all shrubs which are prone to produce numerous suckers. 

 Tne best time to divide the plants is when they receive their 

 summer poning; then the divisions can be potted into sepa- 

 rate pots, and allowed to mingle with their fellow-denizens in 

 their proper departments, where exactly the same treatment 

 will be suitable for all. 



In conclusion, I would beg to remark, that by these loose 

 hints, (for such indeed they are,) 1 have endeavored to illiis- 



