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weather without any covering by night or day. They can l)e taken 

 out of tlie frame in the fall, and stored in earth in a hox in the cellar, 

 and set out the next spring in the open gi'ound. They can also be 

 raised from seed, although there will be more or less variation in the 

 color of the flowers of the seedling plants from that of the parent. The 

 seed should be sown in the fall, in shallow drills, and covered but slightly. 

 In the spring it will germinate, and the young seedlings will require the 

 same bare in weeding and cleaning and stirring the soil as a bed of carrots. 

 In the fall they should be taken up, packed in earth, and stored in the 

 cellar until spring, when they should be set out about six inches apart 

 in rows, and cultivated and cared for until large enough to be set in 

 their permanent place on the lawn. 



The Plum-leaved Spirea is somewhat more difficult of propagation, 

 though it wiU root tolerably well_from layers, tongued and put down 

 in the usual manner of layering. But the best way to propagate it is 

 from cuttings of the green wood in summer. The most successful plan 

 is to plant the shrub in a box or tub, place it in the gTeenhouse in Feb- 

 ruary, and gently force it into growth. "When the young shoots have 

 begun to harden, they should be taken out and set in pure sand in the 

 propagating bed, over a gentle but steady bottom heat. Here they 

 will soon strike, and when the roots have been well developed may be 

 potted off into small pots and treated like any young, tender, newly 

 potted plant. They may also be grown in the summer froln cuttings 

 taken from the shrub in the open ground, and set in sand over a hot- 

 bed having a gentle bottom heat, covered with sash and shaded so as 

 to exclude the sun. Considerable skill and attention are requisite to 

 success in this method of propagation ; there is danger on every hand, 

 danger from too much moisture, and danger from too little moisture, 

 danger from keei)ing the sash shut too close, and danger from admitting 

 too much air, the bottom heat may be too great, or it may be too little, 

 the cuttings may be taken too gTeen, or they may have become too 

 much hardened. 



The Chinese Doulle-Jlowering Plum is propagated by grafting or 

 budding on stocks of the common plum. It is possible that it might 

 be made to grow from cuttings in bottom heat, but we have never 

 tried that method, the process of budding it upon the plum stock being 

 much more convenient, expeditious, and economical. 



The Purple-leaved Filbert is propagated by layering. We ha\o 



