VII. LIST OF SHRUBS. 



moderate heat. Shade them with mats, but do not give 

 air for a day or two, and then give a r little water and air, 

 but let the water have stood in the watering-pot exposed 

 to the sun for three or four hours before you give it. 

 When you find they have struck and are growing well, 

 re-pot them and place them in the open air, but in a 

 shady situation, with hoops over them that you may lay 

 mats on. Put some siftings of cinders on the ground 

 before you place the pots on it, and this will keep out 

 worms. In this place, let them recover the re-potting, 

 which they will soon do, and then they are nice fresh 

 and convenient-sized plants for the green-house, where 

 they will blow in the winter, and in the following May, 

 will be your supply for the open ground. Another way 

 of propagating is by seed, of which you may generally 

 gather abundance in July, and, if sowed directly in good 

 earth and in large pots plunged in a hot-bed, will come 

 up directly, and, being potted out singly in three weeks 

 from the time of coming out, and again carefully ma- 

 naged (though not forced), will be fine strong plants by 

 the end of autumn, and handsomer in form than those 

 raised from cuttings. Put them into the green-house in 

 September, or earlier if the weather be cold, and observe 

 that you cannot give too much air, nor keep the place 

 too free from damp. Want of air and dampness being 

 the two main destroyers of these plants. If their leaves 

 turn yellow, be sure that there is not air enough j and, 

 if their joints become mouldy, look to dampness as the 

 cause. Prune off dead branches, and always keep the 

 plant bushey, for otherwise it becomes a long horny 

 thing, with a small head and few flowers. The ivy- 

 leaved geranium is a pretty little trailing plant, with 



