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there is nothing more to do. When shifting into larger pots, it 

 is only necessary to cut the wire asunder, and place the stakes 

 near the rim of the pot, adding two or three more, joining a 

 piece more wire, and shifting some of the ties a little. It is 

 very quickly done by an active person ; and is not only neat, 

 but very durable. 



Propagating heaths is much easier and more simply done 

 than most people imagine. Fill the pots half full of crocks, 

 then add a handful of good rich open heath soil, and about 1 in. 

 of pure sand with a small portion of charcoal dust. Take the 

 most healthy cuttings, cut them clean with a sharp knife, 

 clear off a portion of the leaves, and put them in to the depth 

 of a quarter of an inch, covering them down close with a bell- 

 glass. Take off the glass every morning, wipe it with a dry 

 cloth, and leave it off for half an hour or so, taking care to 

 water them with a fine-rosed pot often ; for 1 have observed 

 thousands of cuttings put in and lost for the want of sufficient 

 water. 



Heath-growing may be summed up in a few words. Get good, 

 tough, rooty, gritty heath soil, sweet and wholesome, with a 

 portion of pure sand, stones, pebbles, or flints ; a good drainage, 

 with a portion of charcoal used in a rough state. The plants 

 should stand in a healthy airy situation, and be watered with 

 pure water ; if the water is not pure, put charcoal in it. Keep 

 them at all times and seasons well aired, and syringed often on 

 a fine morning ; it is the life and soul of them. 



Bicton Gardens, Feb. 13. 1843. 



Art, IV. On haying out and Planting the Lawn, Shrubbery, and 

 Floicer-Garden. By the Conductor. 



(^Continued from p. 266.) 



The design j%. 73. is for a flower-garden combining a shrubbery; the plants, 

 in both cases, to be a miscellaneous assemblage planted regularly, according 

 to height, colour, •find time of flowering. In the centre is a basin of water 

 with a stone margin and vases at the angles, the entrance to which is through 

 arches of trelliswork, covered with hardy herbaceous climbers, such as 

 convolvulus, tropgeolum, &c., at a, a, a, a ; or a. cypress or conical-shaped 

 Juniperus, or Irish yew, may be planted in each of the small squares at the 

 four openings. The beds are not more than 2 ft. wide, in order to admit of 

 only a single row of plants in each ; every plant is to be encouraged to form 

 a circular mass of 18 in. in diameter, leaving a separation of 3 in. between plant 

 and i)lant when full grown, and the same distance between the plants and the 

 grass, so that in fact each plant will be a circle of 18 in. in diameter, standing 

 within a square of 2 ft. on the side. On the beds next the walk the lowest 

 plants, or those which do not rise above 9 in. or 1 ft., are to be planted; on 

 the next the middle-sized plants which do not rise above 2 ft., and on the 

 third bed, plants which grow from 3 ft. to 5 ft. in height. The plants in each 

 bed may be arranged jointly according to the colour of the flowers and the 

 time of flowering as follows : — 



For the line of beds next the walk, eight white-flowering plants for Fe- 



