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are well up. Pot off as soon as the 3 T oung plants have 

 four or five leaves. 



By Cuttings. — Take short side-shoots of the firm 

 young wood at any time during the summer ; trim 

 them clean at the base with a keen-edged small knife, 

 and insert them, in small pots half an inch apart, in 

 soil composed of half fine sandy peat and half maiden 

 loam and silver sand, insuring a good drainage first by 

 filling the pot with fine broken potsherds, one-third 

 full, with some fine cracked-up charcoal over them. 

 Then fill the pot well up to the rim quite firm, insert 

 the cuttings, and close the soil well to the base of them, 

 and water them with a fine rose water-pot. Dry them 

 for an hour, and put a bell-glass over them — one that 

 will fit inside the rim of the pot — and set them in a 

 mild bottom heat, not in a hotbed frame (that would be 

 too damp), but in a propagating-house, in sand, over 

 a good tank. The glasses must be taken off every 

 morning, wiped dry, and put on again immediately 

 till the cuttings have struck root, which will be known 



Fig. 26. 



Fig. 27. 



Fi?. 2S. 



Fig. 26 shows the manner of placing a Lcll-glass over some pots 

 of the cuttings referred to in this work. 



Fig. 27 shows the manner of placing a small hell-glass over a pot of 

 the cuttings referred to throughout this book. 



Fig. 2S. — A new class of handlight, easy of construction and cheap. 



by their making new growth ; then the glasses may be 

 taken off, and a large bell-glass set over the pot for a few 

 days or a week, admitting air either at the top or below. 



The Leucopogon [Epacridacece). 



L. Cunninghamii is a good specimen of this genus. 

 This shrub is a most useful and beautiful subject for 



