a^S The Green-House. [May. 



mines, pomegranates, oleanders, and many others of the 

 fhrubby kinds. 



Choofe for this purpofe, fome of the pliable bottom 

 Ihoots ; let thefe be brought down gently ; and making an 

 opening in the earth of the pots, &c. lay them therein, 

 fecuring them down properly with hooked pegs, and 

 cover the body of the fhoots three inches thick with earth, 

 leaving three or four inches of the top out, in an up- 

 rightifh pofition. 



Then lay a little mulch, or fome mowings, or ihort 

 grafs, or the like, on the furface, to preferve the moillure ; 

 and do not forget to refrefh the pots often with gentle 

 waterings. 



Some of the plants thus layed will be rooted by Mi- 

 chaelmas ; fuch as are not, mull be permitted to remain 

 till near that time twelvemonth. 



But if any of the pots containing thefe plants were 

 plunged in a hot-bed, the layers would readily put out 

 roots the fame feafon, and be fit to take off in the follow- 

 ing autumn. 



The general method of propagating myrtl'es is, by cut- 

 tings ; for which fee the work of yu?ie and yu/j. 



Propagating hy Cuttings, 



Many forts of green-houfe exotics may ftlll be propa- 

 gated by cuttings of the young ihoots of laft year, fuch 

 as geraniums, myrtles, &c. planting them in pots ; and if 

 plunged in a hot-bed or in a bark-bed in the hot-houfe, it 

 will ftrike them in a Ihort time. 



Such as root reluftantly by cuttings, may, when plunged 

 in the bark-bed, as above, be covered down clofe with a 

 h-and-glafs, which will greatly forward the emiflion of 

 roots. 



Of Stocks cvjhereon to bud Oranges, l^c. 



If the young orange-ftocks which are raifed from ker- 

 nels fown in March, are come up about three or four 

 inches high, it will be proper to tranfplant them. 



They Ihould be planted fingly m fmall pots, and thcR 

 plunged in a frefh hot-bed, under glafs. 



Let them be watered as foon as planted, and let them be 

 ihaded from the fun in the middle of the day. 



They muft be duly watered about three times a week. 

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