PROPAGATING DAHLIAS. 75 



LETTER V. 



May. 



You will receive with this letter a basket, 

 containing some half-hardy annuals, and green- 

 house plants. I also send a few roots of Dah- 

 lias, marvel of Peru, and Commelina codestis. 

 These roots were taken out of the ground in 

 the autumn, before the frost had set in; the 

 earth w r as shaken from them, and they \vere 

 placed on a shelf in the green-house during 

 the winter. 



You must treat them in the same manner, 

 if you wish to preserve them for the next year : 

 a closet or cellar, if not too damp, w r ill do equal- 

 ly well. They may soon be planted in the 

 ground ; and if you want more Dahlias, or mar- 

 vel of Peru, you must propagate them by taking 



