S3 HAEDY FLOWERS. 



As regards the propagation of the rare and new plants that the 

 cultivator will from time to time be glad to add to his collection, I 

 should advise every amateur and every gardener to have a good rich 

 border in which to plant his first stock of each. In this it would 

 increase with rapidity, and become ready for any use that might be 

 designed for it. Of course we may plant them in borders, and take 

 them up and divide them ; but much the best way is to have a border 

 of rich and light, but deep sandy earth, in which they may be planted 

 in rows, and where all the new and rare hardy plants may be looked 

 after conveniently. Many a new subject gets an undeservedly bad 

 character from 'being placed among established plants, which shade 

 or otherwise injure it. When a new plant arrives, the grower 

 should at once see if there be a possibility of dividing it, and in nine 

 cases out of ten it will be found possible to do so. Then let him 

 carefully pull the roots apart, save every shoot or division, however 

 small, and place them in a line in a border of good soil, and thus get 

 each bit to make a good plant, as quickly perhaps as the com- 

 plete root would make one if planted undivided indeed, often more 

 so, for young plants of this kind frequently grow faster than old 

 tufts. 



