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close to the quick wood, and tiie top cut sloping 

 towards the back of the hot-house or frame when 

 placed ill them. I would recommend planting 

 only one cutting in each pot, which as to size 

 should be a deep forty-eight ; by that means the 

 plants will grow much stronger and quicker than 

 when many are crowded together, and the s«n 

 and air will have a freer admis^sion to ripen the 

 wood; for, when many are planted in one pot, 

 they shade one another, and in -a considerable 

 degree prevent the sun and air from passing freely 

 among them. When the plants begin to get 

 strong, and the pots full of roots, it will be neces- 

 sary to shift them from the forty-eights to the 

 thirty-twos. 



The above mode is best adapted for private 

 gardens, but for nurserymen, &c. who raise plants 

 for sale, and cannot conveniently spare so much 

 room, it may be necessary to plant three or more 

 .cuttings in each pot. 



The same rules for watering, transplanting,- 

 shifting, &c. are to be observed here as for 

 seedlings. 



A method very frequently practised by nursery- 

 men and gardeners, when they wish to have their 

 plants fit for sale the same year, is to plant thera 

 in pots, and place them in the hot-house, among 

 the tan, or the flues, or round the curbs of the 

 pit. I saw this method practised last year, with 

 great success, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, in 

 their hotrhouse at the vineyard, Hammersmith. 



