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broken pots, and the remaining space with silver sand. The rims of both pots 

 should be on the same level, and a bell-glass put on must rest on the sand be- 

 tween the pots. In this case, the cuttings may be placed in a sliady part of a 

 house having a heat of from 65° to 75° or 80°. In either case, keep the soil just 

 moist, and the cuttings close, and shaded from bright sun. When they begin to 

 grow, admit air by tilting the bell-glass or light, and gradually harden off. They 

 will be fit to pot off in six weeks. 



Alocasia metallica Culture. — Turfy peat and loam in equal parts, 

 broken up with the hand two-thirds, well reduced leaf-mould and charcoal broken 

 to the size of a pea, and not larger than a hazel-nut, in equal parts one-third, along 

 with one-sixth of silver sand, make a compost that suits this plant well. The 

 drainage must be good ; and there should be a thin layer of moss or the most 

 fibrous parts of the compost over it. It will do with a shift from a six to a nine 

 inch, or from a nine to a twelve inch pot. In potting, be careful to preserve 

 the thick fleshy roots, and keep the base of the bulb-like part rather high. When 

 growing, it requires abundance of water, and should have a very humid atmos- 

 phere. This, however, should not be created by constantly syringing the foliage, 

 which is impatient of that. Shade should be given from bright sun from the end 

 of March to October. The plant requires plenty of room, and to be kept near the 

 glass. A temperature of from 70° to 75° by night is essential, and the thermom- 

 eter may rise to 90° by day in summer : in winter, the plant will do in a tempera- 

 ture of from 60° to 65°. It should not be very firmly potted : the soil should be 

 left free, but not too open. 



Propagating and growing Daphne Indica. — As soon as the shoots 

 are two or three inches long, slip them off with a bit of heel, and plunge in a 

 stove or cucumber-bed : they will soon take root. Then pot them off, and keep 

 close for a few days ; and, when the plants are well rooted in their pots, pinch out 

 the top of each, and place them in a house, or, better, a pit. They will soon 

 shoot out ; and, when they have grown three or four inches, pinch off the leading 

 bud of each shoot. By doing this twice or thrice, nice bushy plants can be se- 

 cured the first season ; and these will always bloom in the following year, if the 

 wood be properly ripened. By following the same plan a second year, the plants 

 will be quite large. This system does not seem to weaken them, as their leath- 

 ery leaves and strong shoots indicate that they are in good health. 



Cranberry Culture. — Very few fruits so well repay the enterprise of the 

 skilful farmer as the cranberry : certainly none will bear for a long term of 

 years with so little manure ; in fact, none is ever given them except what they 

 get by the annual inundation which their culture requires. 



The land best fitted for the culture of cranberries is a peat-meadow. It must 

 be so located that it can be drained eighteen inches below the surface, and 

 flooded the same depth above the surface. If not situated so that these con- 

 ditions can be attained, it would be useless to expend money on any attempt to 

 reduce it to a cranberry-meadow. But where these conditions can be com- 



