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in the propagating bench. Still, the detached slip, until 

 rooted, will not endure a continuation of excessive heat, 

 so that we advise, as we do in the regular method of 

 propagating, that the attempt should not be made to root 

 cuttings in this way, in this latitude, in the months of 

 June, July and August, unless with plants of a tropical 

 nature. When the cuttings are rooted, they should be 

 potted in small pots, and treated carefully by shading 

 and watering for a few days, as previously directed. All 

 kinds of plants may be rooted by this method when the 

 young green wood is used, whether of soft wooded plants, 

 such as Fuchsias, Carnations, Geraniums, Heliotropes, 

 etc., or of hard- wooded plants, such as Roses or Azaleas, 

 provided that the same condition of cutting is adhered to 

 as advised for the other methods. 



In many of the operations in floriculture, as in vegeta- 

 ble gardening, success or failure depends upon their 

 being done at the proper time, and though it may seem 

 like a needless repetition, I cannot too strongly enforce 

 upon the novice the importance of observing the dates 

 that the experience of our best cultivators has shown to 

 be best under our peculiar climate. Whoever in this 

 matter follows the directions of an English work upon 

 horticulture, will be sure to fall into difficulties, although 

 its teachings may be exactly suited to the English climate. 

 I would here refer to the evils arising from the too com- 

 mon practice of many of our agricultural and horticul- 

 tural journals, of selecting from English papers articles 

 that often seriously mislead. For example, a Boston 

 magazine a year or two ago copied a long article from the 

 English "Journal of Horticulture," telling us in a very 

 patronizing way how to propagate the Golden Tricolor- 

 leaved Geraniums. The writer laid great stress on having 

 a sharp knife and cutting the slip in a particular manner, 

 then to insert it in silver sand, and a lot of other nonsense 

 any boy of six months' practice here woulcl 



