July.] The Green-House. ^ji 



Succulent Plants, 



This IS alfo a proper time to plant cuttings of moft 

 kinds of fucculent plants. 



Particularly euphorbiums ; all the forts of ficoidefes, 

 arid feJums, with the torch-thiftle ; and the other kinds 

 of cereufes, and alfo the Indian fig ; and many other fuc- 

 culent kinds. 



The method of propagating thefe kinds of plants is eafy 

 enough ; it is done principally by cuttings, and the ma- 

 nagement of them is this : 



Jn the firft place, it will be proper to obferve, that the 

 cuttings of many of thefe kinds of plants will take root 

 tolerably free in a bed or pots of light comport, without 

 the help of artificial heat ; but yet the aflillance of a mo- 

 derate hot-bed would make them more certainly take 

 root ; and in a much fhorter time, either placed in a bark- 

 bed of a hot-houfe, &c. or upon any common hot bed 

 either made of dung or bark; bark is the belt; but 

 where that is not, dung will do. Make a bed for one 

 light box, or fome hand-glafies, and cover the dung four 

 or live inches deep with frelh earth. 



Next, let it be obferved, that as many of thefe fuccu- 

 lent plants differ widely in the manner of their growth, 

 no particular length can be properly afligned the cuttings ; 

 but murt be taken as they can be found, from two or three 

 to fix, {even, or eight inches in leneth, according to the- 

 gjowth of the particular plants. 



Having fixed upon the cuttings, let them, with a fharp 

 knife, be feparated at one cut from the mother plant, and 

 let them be immediately laid in a dry place ia the green 

 houfe,- Sec. out of the fun, till the bottom, or cut part, 

 be dried or healed over; becaufe, if; they were to be 

 planted before that was effeded,. the moilture from tlu 

 wound would rot the cutting in that part. 



When they have lain ten or twelve days, they will be 

 proper order for planting ; then let fome pots be filled 

 with fome dry light compoft. This being done, plane 

 the cuttings in the pots, and cloie the earth weil about 

 them. 



Then immediately plunge the pots to their rims, eithei" 

 in the hot-houfe bark-bed, or in a common hot-bed, 

 under the giafies ; and ih^de them with mats, in the raid- 



