578 HOT-HOUSK DISPLAYED. 



alfo in the bark-bed, to forward their rooting, 

 and run them off a little in growth ; and ac- 

 cording as they encreafe confiderably in fize, 

 agreeable to their refpeftive growths, iliifc 

 them into larger pots. 



Suckers, and ofF-fets from the roots, or near 

 the bottom, are afforded in many forts, 

 v.'hich, when they occur, may be detached, 

 and planted in fmall pots, or according to the 

 fize of the plants, and plunged in the bark- 

 bed, to run them off in frefli rooting and re- 

 newed growth. 



By cuttings and flips of the young flioots, 

 many forts, both of the uoody and fucculent 

 tribe, &c. are raifed, and which may be per- 

 formed in the Spring, Summer, and Autumn, 

 the young fide-fhoots or others as they may 

 occur, cutting them off, or fome flipped off 

 by the hand, efpecially fome of the fucculent 

 kinds, or at it may feem mofl expedient, and 

 from two or three, to five, fix or eight inches 

 long, or more ; all planted in pots, one, two, 

 or feveral in each, according :o the fize of the 

 cuttings, flips, or that of the pots, as maybe 

 convenient, and plunged in the bark-bed; or 

 oblerving previoufly, of the fucculent kinds 

 particularly, if, \*hen cut or flipped off, they 

 are very humid or moiii: in the part that was 

 attached to the parent plant, lay them a few 

 days, or as required, to dry the fucculency, 

 otherwife are fometimes apt to rot thereby in 

 the earth before they firike j then plant thefe 

 fucc'uleui iijiids in pots of dry light foil, and 

 ^ plunged 



