ON PROPAGATING TRKES AND PLANTS. 257 



Under this conviction, and the additional inducennents ofohtain- 

 ing a market for heint) witliout the process of water-rotting, which 

 is superseded hv a newly invented machine for cleaning, I have 

 engaged to plant a part of iny land the ensuing season for the pur- 

 pose of raising a crop of seed ; in order to be in preparation to raise 

 the lint the OiJiowinii season. 1 am, Sir, <SiC. Amos Parker. 



Springfield, 11., Od. 10, 1828." 



From four to eight hundred pounds of fibre may be considered 

 as a fair crop per acie. 



On the use of Sand in Propagating Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, from 

 cuttings of them. Bij Mr. Thomas Haynes, of Oundle, North- 

 aoiptonshire. 



" Taz finest while sand is superlatively ustful to autumn-planted 

 onitings of the more tf-nder evergreen trees and shrubs. In the busi- 

 ness of planting cuttings of these under hand-glasses, in the autumn, 

 as well as the more hardy green-house plants, such as myrtles, 

 faschia, roses, cistuses, germander, &;c.. no unmixed soil whatever 

 can be found to hear a comparison with the finest white sand ; as 

 cuttings planted therein will be far more secure from mouldiness 

 throughout the autumnal and winter seasons ; during which times, 

 the pots in which they are planted, generally remain standing up 

 to their rims in the common ground, as the greatest preservative 

 from frost ; but in which situation, they are more exposed to the 

 ill effects of damp, than if standing on the surface. 



" Although hut little more than a knot, or a swelling protube- 

 ance, at the foot of each cutting, can be effected, during the first 

 autumn ; yet, on the advance of spring, they will early make roots, 

 even without the addition of any other soil or article to promote 

 their growth ; and which young plants, being potted ofT, or trans- 

 planted in some way, as soon as they have formed sufficient roots ; 

 immense quantities, from these small cuttings, may thus be annually 

 propagated^ by the help of full sized single hand-glasses! This 

 process, however, will not extend to any other description of plants 

 than the evergreens. 



'"• In the propagation of the trees and shrubs alluded to by this 

 process, it must be recollected, that the sand is to be considered 

 as no farther essential, than to strike or promote growth in the cut- 

 ting?, sufficient for transplantation ; as, on their being removed 

 into another 'situation, in the next stage of the process, a mixture 

 of suitable soil, with a proportion of sand only, will be requisite. 



" We are not asserting that yellow sand will not equally appiv in 

 both cases, of planting cuttings of hardy evergreen trees and shrubs, 

 both by summer planting, in the open exposure, and autumn plant- 

 ing, under hand-glasses ; but in all the experiments we have wit- 

 nessed, and throughout the whole of our own practice, white sand, 

 where it could be obtained, has been invariably applied, and most 

 successfully. 



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