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good specimens), and put each cutting separately into a bottom 

 heat, where the cutting will soon take root. The soil I use for 

 this purpose is one part of leaf mould, one of peat, one of loam, 

 one of sheep clung, with some silver sand, mixed well together. I 

 then pot ofi" the cuttings into half pints, plunge them into a good 

 bottom heat, and as soon as the roots make their appearance 

 round the pot sides, repot them into larger sizes, according to the 

 growth of the plants. By keeping them in bottom heat they will 

 grow vigorously, and soon make good plants. Place a stick in 

 the centre of the pots, and tie the plants to keep them upright. 

 They will soon begin to make side shoots, and when they are 

 three or four joints long, stop them. Do this to all the joints 

 that are near the bottom at once, so that they may all break at 

 one time. Continue to stop the young shoots from the bottom 

 upwards. Care must be taken not to get the leader injured, or 

 the appearance of the specimen will be iinsightly. By this treat- 

 ment, and careful training, you may get plants >vhose branches 

 hang with graceful regularity from the top to the bottom of the 

 stem — not like those we often see, mere bundles of sticks, resem- 

 bling half-formed bird-cages. The growth of the plant, in my opin- 

 ion, adds as much to its beauty as the flowers. 



LucuLiA GRATissiMA. — It is a matter of surprise that this plant is 

 not grown in every cold greenhouse, for its beauty and fragrance 

 at this season of the year cannot be surpassed. Two fine plants 

 are growing in a cold conservatory at Thorp Perrow, Bedale, 

 where the thermometer seldom rises above 44<^. It covers a 

 space on a back wall 24 feet by 12 ; in the Christmas week there 

 were more than 100 bunches of bloom open at one time, and, their 

 beauty is likely to last for a long time, which makes them more 

 prized in winter. The plants are never exposed to cutting winds. 

 They were planted — one five years ago, the other six. The soil 

 used for them was a mixture of loam and leaf-mould , so impati- 

 ent are the plants of heat that the hot water pipes near them have 

 been covered up for two years ; previous to that the lower blooms 

 dropped off before they came to perfection. — Gardeners^ Chronicle. 



