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readers, they are at your service. [We shall be exceedingly 

 glad to receive these plans.] 



Should my remarks in the preceding part of this paper meet 

 your approbation, I hope that, in more forcible language, you 

 will press them on the attention of your readers : there is 

 something in the present practice radically wrong. 



Folkstone, August 4. 1837. 



Art. IV. On the Propagation of the Pine and Fir Tribe, and other 

 Coniferce, hy Cuttings. By T. M. Lindsay, Gardener at High 

 Clere. 



From some time previous to the summer of 1835, on to the 

 present time, I have taken considerable pains to ascertain the 

 best possible means of procuring plants of those species of Co- 

 niferse which, at present, are extremely rare in this country, and 

 yet very desirable ; and of the seeds of which there are so many 

 difficulties attending the procuring and importation, that it is 

 absolutely necessary for those who wish to have such things, to 

 devise some other means of procuring them than that of raising 

 them from seed. 



Having been successful in raising a few of the scarcer species, 

 and also some of the more common, by cuttings, and, with no 

 great deal of trouble or attention, I have at last arrived at a cqn- 

 clusion, that the whole tribe of Coniferse, in the absence of seeds, 

 may be very advantageously raised by cuttings. The species 

 that I have raised by cuttings are as follows : — 



T'a'xin^ Richard. 



J^bie amabilis. 



Tkxus baccata var. variegata. 



nobilis. 

 Pichta. 



Cupre'ssin^ Richard. 



Picea. 



Jiiniperus recurva. 



exc^lsa. 



TournefortM. 



nigra. " 



expansa. 



prostrata. 



nana. 



JDarix microcarpa. 

 Cedrus Libani. 



Deoddra. 





Pinus excelsa. 



Jbie'tiNjE Richard. 



monticola. 



A'^hies Morinda, 



Cembra 



Douglasii. 



halepensis. 



MenziesM. 



sylvestris. 



Webbia?z«. 



Araucdria imbricata. 



Clanbrasihana. 



Cunninghams lanceolata. 



I have found the autumn the best time to put in the cuttings ; 

 and, though the early spring will answer the purpose, I have not 

 found success so certain at that season. The sort of cuttings I 

 prefer are the smallest I can select, from 2 in. to 3 in. long, of the 

 current year's growth, just as the wood has ripened; say about 



