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with a keen-edged knife, cut it at right angles just 

 below a leaflet. AVhen enough are made to fill a hand- 

 light, place them under it, in a nicely -prepared compost 

 of maiden loam, peat, and sand, made fine. Insert the 

 cuttings, 2 inches asunder, all over the space covered 

 by the light, let them into the ground full half-way, 

 and close the soil well to the lower part of the cuttings 

 with a small dibber, which should not exceed in size a 

 large school cane. When all are in, water them well 

 with a moderately fine rose water-pot to settle the soil to 

 the cuttings, and cover them with the light. By the 

 spring they will have made sufficient root to allow of 

 their being taken up and potted into smaller pots, or 

 planted out into fine soil in a shady border 6 inches by 4 

 apart. 



Should not the cuttings all have struck root by the 

 spring, they must remain until the following autumn, 

 lifting the handlight off as soon as they begin to grow. 

 The Euonymus is a remarkably fine pot shrub, and will 

 safely bear a good deal of drought and exposure. 



The Berberis. 



There are two classes of this genus, the evergreen 

 and the deciduous. This last division consists of the 

 common coarse-growing thorny Berberry, from which a 

 small acid fruit is gathered for preserving. All the 

 berberries are most desirable plants. The evergreen 

 species are among our choicest ornaments of the 

 garden. Darwinii and Dulcis are the most splendid- 

 flowering evergreen shrubs we possess for planting on 

 lawns, being covered in the sjmng with golden bells. 

 They should have a conspicuous place assigned them. 

 Nothing among low-growing shrubs can excel a well- 

 grown specimen of Dartuinii on a nice lawn. 



They will bear cutting in well, but it should be done 

 with the knife and not with the shears. The cutting 

 or trimming should be done immediately after the 

 flowering is over. Some of them, as Empetrifolia and 

 Repens, are good rock plants, being prostrate-growing 



