364 TFIE HOT-HOUSE. [April. 



Propagating Green-house Plants by Cuttings, Suckers and 

 Layers, fyc. 



There are few shrubby plants but may be propagated by layers; 

 these should be laid in the pots or tubs, agreeably to the methods 

 directed in page 288. 



Suckers may now be taken off where they appear, and be planted 

 in separate pots, or several small ones in the same pot. 



The far greater number of all the green-house plants may now 

 be plentifully propagated by cuttings or slips; such as laurusti- 

 nus, myrtles, geraniums, balm of Gilcad, and fuschia coccinca; 

 jasmines, gardinias, hydrangeas, English and Portugal laurels; 

 oleanders, passion-flowers, justicias, lagerstroemia, heliotropiums, 

 coronillas and melianthuses; acuba and Camilla japonica, budd- 

 leias, solanums, teucriums, proteas and salvias, with almost every 

 other kind, if planted in hot-beds, and carefully shaded and watered. 

 Such as do not root freely should have bell-glasses placed over them 

 in the hot-bed till rooted; this is the most effectual way to insure 

 the growth of many hard-wooded kinds. 



The roots of herbaceous kinds may now be separated and 

 planted in different pots for increase; the succulent kinds may also 

 be propagated by slips, cuttings and suckers, such as cactuses, 

 stapelias, mesembryanthemums, &c. The succulent sorts should 

 not be planted for a few days after having been taken off, that the 

 wounds may heal; during which time, they may lie on a shelf in the 

 green-house, and when fit, plant them in pots of good sandy earth. 



The young orange and lemon stocks, raised last year for bud- 

 ding, should now, if not done before, be planted into separate and 

 suitable sized pots; and if then plunged in a hot-bed till they have 

 taken fresh root, it will greatly promote their growth. Some of 

 the strongest will probably be of sufficient size to bud in August, 

 and all of them at that time twelve months. 



Cape Bulbs. 



Many of the cape bulbs, mentioned in page 166, will be now in 

 flower; they should all be kept in the front parts of the green- 

 house, and have plenty of air, without which they will spindle up 

 and never show either strong or brilliant flowers; such as are in 

 blow however, are, when the sun shines too powerfully on them, to 

 be, for the moment, removed out of its rays, or it will facilitate 

 their decline. 



THE HOT-HOUSE. 

 Pine .Apples. 

 In this month it will be easy to distinguish which of the pines 



