32 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



For about ten days, unless the weather is very hot and 

 sunny, the sash may be kept almost continuously closed, 

 giving slight dewy waterings if the surface soil gets dry. 

 After the first eight or ten days it will be advisable to begin 

 to give air by raising the sash i or 2 inches at the back for 

 the first week, and increasing it to 3 or 4 inches the second 

 week. As soon as the cuttings show evidence of having 

 made roots, the whitewash must be washed off the glass, 

 and more air given until the sashes are removed altogether, 

 not to be replaced again if the plants are for autumn-plant- 

 ing ; but if for spring-planting they will require the pro- 

 tection of the sashes in severe weather in winter, especially 

 if the cuttings are from fine varieties of Pansies. 



Propagating Out-of-doors. One of the most noted 

 and successful cultivators, Mr. ]. F. McLeod, gardener to 

 J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq., of Dover House, Roehampton, 

 propagates all his Violas out-of-doors ; and such was largely 

 the practice of the late talented superintendent of Regent's 

 and Hyde Parks, Mr. Charles Jordan. For this purpose a 

 border facing west or north-west is chosen, and it is prepared 

 much the same way as recommended in the foregoing pages 

 for the frame. Cuttings are inserted in a similar way, and 

 a very large proportion are found to strike. This plan has 

 much to recommend it when large quantities, hundreds, even 

 thousands, of one variety are required, and with the hardy 



