384 LISTS OF TREES, &C. SECT. XIX, 



$hade them about ten days, or a fortnight, with mats 

 hooped over, which remove in shady, or showery 

 weather. When they have grown here a month, or 

 six weeks, (or before August is out) plant them in 

 a bed, where they are to blow, at nine or ten inches 

 distance, and shade, if necessary. See January. 

 Seed is best saved from good seedling plants, rather 

 than those long propagated from layers, &c. Guard 

 dgainst mice in winter. 



Geranium, African, (Pelargonium) is propa- 

 gated by seeds and cuttings. The former produces 

 the most free growing plants ; but as luxuriance is 

 not desirable in things confined to pots, (as gera- 

 niums must be) and as the propagation by cuttings 

 is so easy and expeditious, it is the mode of culture 

 that generally prevails. The young plants from cut- 

 tings are also hardier than those from seed. If raised 

 from seed, sow in April, in a light and good soil, 

 warm border, and under a hand- glass, keeping the 

 earth somewhat moist ; but it i& best to make use of 

 a gentle hot-bed, giving plenty of air to the plants 

 when they appear, on natural ground they will be 

 five or six weeks in coming up, and on a moderate 

 heat about three. If raised from cuttings, use shoots 

 of the last year's growth, strait and short jointed. 

 Plant them in a fine rich soil, two or three inches, 

 or at the most four deep, and eight or nine inches 

 asunder, or less, if more convenient. Or the rule 

 may be, to plant the shorter cuttings in two thirds of 

 their length, and the longer one half; but it is aft 

 error to put them in the ground so deep as some 

 people do. Those raised on a little heat will be 

 sufficiently rooted in two months to transplant into 

 small pots; (shortening the longer roots a little) 

 and those in the cold ground will be ready in three 

 months, and sometimes less. A hand-glass set over 

 geranium cuttings (or any other) will greatly facili- 



