76 PROPAGATING DAHLIAS. [MAY. 



off cuttings, with a small piece of the root, call- 

 ed the tuber, attached to each. These should 

 be put intto pots, and set in a frame, or green- 

 house, till they have struck ; or if you can crib 

 a fortnight's birth for them, in a corner of a 

 cucumber bed, they will strike root much 

 quicker ; and they may be sooner planted in 

 the open ground, so as to flower this year. 

 If, however, you strike them in a hot-bed, you 

 must put them into the green-house, to harden, 

 as it is called, that is, to make the change 

 of temperature less violent before you plant 

 them in the garden. If you took them out of 

 the hot-bed, and put them immediately into 

 the ground, the sudden and great change would 

 almost kill them. 



This treatment applies to all plants raised in 

 the same manner. These cuttings will flower 

 the first year, quite as well as the old plants ; 



