300 General JS'oticu. 



of roots: and to enable me to accomplish it with greater 

 iacility, I made the soQ ntueh firmer than is osaally done in the gen- 

 eral manner of piping. I do not use a dibber to plant with, but my 

 lore-finger; I lay the lower end of my slip horizontally upon the 

 EOrface of the sofl, and so presc it down into it: when, from the 

 firmness of the soO, the slip is compelled to clip round the end of 

 the finger; with the other hand I tarn np the top to its perpendicu- 

 lar, and press the lower end down till the tail is about half an inch 

 braeath the soil; I then make the soU firm, and the operation is com- 

 plete. If the slips are too long, I cut them op to a joint,, to a suit- 

 ■Ue length. I hare slipped off hundreds, and hare not eren cut ofi* 

 the rag left on in slipping; and by the abore proce^, not one cutting 

 has faded; yet it is better that the ragged end be cot off. either with 

 a diarp knife, or with scissor?, which is generally the most expedi- 

 tioas method. I planted one thousand seren hundred slips this last 

 season, not twen^ of which mi^«d, and all my plants are firm and 

 stocky. The first season that I conomenced operations here,. I osed 

 to shade them, when the sun was powerful, for the first formight, 

 with fresh cabbage or rhubarb leares, laid orer some pegs, stuck 

 diagmially auMmgst them, or a few hoops bowed over them, placing 

 the tmder side of soeh leaves at all times undermost; by which 

 means a hnmid atmosphere is preserred, whQst the ponrerful sun is 

 npoD them. The last two years I hare used no shading, as I hare 

 bad DO time to attend to it, and few plants have missed. The pip- 

 ing are best left with no other attention, after planting, besides oc- 

 casional watering, in dry weather, and keeping them tree from weeds 

 till the time for planting out, which may be done at any time after 

 the plants are perfectly rooted: the nsoal season, however, to plant 

 oot for flowering in the highest perfection, is September; and for 

 propagation, all the month of June, even to the middle of July- 



Best DmUsMs. — We find a list in the Gardener's Chromele. of all 

 the best dahlias now offered for sale. As it may be interesting, we 

 hare condensed the following ft-om the list of upwards of eighty 

 kinds. The abbreTiatioos to the names are as follows: — g., good: 

 V. g., Tery good: g-. foa., good, bat nneertain: «. g. un., very good, 

 but uncertain: r. g. s., rerj good, bat smalL 



Springfield Riral. v. g. s. 



JJe Grand Baodine. v. g. 



Uniqae. v. g. s. 



Grace Dariing. v. g-. 



Beaaty of the Plainr «. g. 



Argo. V. g. 



Maria (Wheeler's.) v. g. 



Kichfrfas Nickleby. g. «3k 



Hope. ». g. 



Ke Pins Ultra, v. g. 



TeQow Defiance, r. g, 



Pickwick. V. g. 



Clonax. V. r.' 



DochesB of ^iebmood. v. g. 



Btooosboiy (PampKn's.) v. g. 



PfaemMBmon. v. g. \ Windsor Rival. «. g. m 



Daoeeroft RivaL g. Rosa (Bree's.) t g. un. 



Lee's Bloomsbury. g. 

 ChaiiesXII.(Pamplin's.)g. un. 

 Roage et Noir. r. g. vn. 

 Riral Sossex. g. 

 Era. V. g. 

 Advaneer. g. 

 Annot Lisle, g. 

 Lewisham RiraL r. g. 

 Suffolk Hero. r. g. 

 Bontishon. v. g. 

 RieozL V. g. 

 Mare^eld RivaL g. 

 Metelia. v. g. 

 Penelope, v. e. un. 

 WindmiU Hill Rival, v. g. wa. 



