VII. FLOWERS. 



the means of beating down and destroying the lesser and, 

 perhaps, choicer ones below them. 



419. In Chapter IV. I have treated at large of propa- 

 gation and cultivation in general, and, as to the pro- 

 pagation and cultivation of flowers, I may refer my 

 readers to that Chapter for the general knowledge, and, 

 therefore, I shall now only notice a few particulars that 

 I did not go into there. The plants that I enumerate 

 in the following list are propagated either by seed, by 

 cuttings or pipings, by parting the roots or the tubers, or by 



separating the offsets. By seed. The general instructions 



given in Chap. IV. par. 85 to 95, are sufficiently in the 



reader's mind, and I need say no more upon that. 



By cuttings or pipings, and by layers. The instructions for 



striking the carnation fully explain this. By parting the 



roots. This is taking up the plant, we will suppose, 

 of the peach-leaved campanula, and dividing it into 

 as many parts as there are complete crowns ; each of 

 which, if divided so as for it to have a piece of root left 

 with it, and carefully replanted, will become a flowering 

 plant in the spring following the operation. It is performed 

 generally in the autumn. For parting the tubers of 

 of tuberous-rooted plants, see the article " Auricula " or 



" Ranunculus.' 1 By separating the offsets. This is, taking 



off the two or three young bulbs that, on taking up a 

 bulbous root, you find growing at its side, its root being 

 fixed on at the root, and its body curling up round the 

 body, of the mother bulb. Break these off carefully, and 

 treat them according to the instructions given for each 

 sort under the respective name of each. As to their 

 cultivation, I have spoken so much of it in general, that 

 I will not say any more upon that subject. But there is, 



