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eyes, and they will shoot strong and fine in the succeeding 

 spring. 



If they are suffered to remain on the old stool after the last 

 week in August, it will be found upon inspection that they 

 have less and less roots every time they are examined (as 

 they die off) ; and, when not planted before the spring, when 

 that time arrives it will be found that there is scarcely any 

 root left alive. The points upon which I lay most stress are 

 these, — to keep them well supplied with water, to separate 

 the young plants from the old stool not later than the last 

 week in August, and to plant them immediately where the} r 

 are intended to remain. I intend these directions to apply 

 solely to vines propagated in the open air without any heat or 

 other artificial assistance. W. G. 



Stepney, February. 



We have seen the above mode put in practice ; a leaky pot 

 of water, or a tuft of wet moss kept wet, being put over 

 each layer, and believe it to be, as our correspondent says 

 it is, far preferable to any other. As to any difference in the 

 nature of plants raised from layers, and plants raised from 

 buds or short cuttings, as alleged by some authors, we 

 think the opinion erroneous. — Cond. 



Art. XIII. Suggestions for Improvements on the Horticultural 

 Memorandum Book of a Country Clergyman, By Suffol- 



CIENSIS. 



Dear Sir, 



I beg leave to suggest to your correspondent on the " De- 

 scription and Use of a Horticultural Memorandum Book" 

 (Vol.11, p. 319.), a little variation in form and arrangement, 

 by which I conceive a very complete register of all work rela- 

 tive to the different crops in a garden may be compressed into 

 a very narrow compass, and a most useful book formed for 

 reference at any future time. 



My plan is to rule in a common memorandum book co- 

 lumns in the form of the copy which I enclose. In the first 

 of these I write an alphabetical list of all the vegetables I grow 

 in my garden ; then under every month I have three open 

 spaces, headed "sown," "planted," "gathered;" under one 

 of these I merely insert the day of the particular month on ' 

 which either of the operations is performed opposite the 

 name to which it applies ; and this gives me a register of the 

 whole progress of my crops through the year. 



