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be the case if impure moisture is allowed to remain on the 

 inside of the glass. The cuttings may remain in this state 

 until the spring, or so soon as they are well rooted, when 

 they may be potted off, in the proper compost, recommended 

 for the parent plant. 



Erica, Diosma, and Epacris, with their natural families, 

 may be propagated, by taking off the young shoots when well 

 ripened, and preparing a compost of peat, as recommended 

 for them under the proper heads. The pots may be filled 

 with crocking at the bottom ; then fill it up to within two 

 inches with sharp white sand, into which insert the cuttings, 

 which should be covered with bell glasses, and treated in the 

 same manner as other cuttings. 



Striking cuttings in water. There are many kinds of 

 soft-wooded green-house plants that are readily propagated in 

 water, such as the Oleanders, Cape Jasmine, &c. This is 

 generally done when the wood of the plants to be increased 

 is tolerably well ripened ; when the cuttings are to be taken 

 from the plants and prepared in the usual way ; they are then 

 placed in glass phials, hyacinth glasses, or the like, filled with 

 water, and kept in a temperature of 60, until they make 

 roots from the end of the cutting; they may then be potted 

 as any other cutting, and managed in the same way. In this 

 method, pure water is a principal item, and the water must 

 be often changed, as for bulbs, &c. 



