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from the roots. These strike well when put in a good 

 strong heat, and, by one or two shirtings, make nice 

 little bulbs before autumn. These dry completely, 

 and allow to remain in the pots during the winter ; 

 placing them in a dry situation, not far distant from 

 a Hue, so that they may haye the benefit of it in clamp 

 weather, or when sharp frosts occur. The mould in 

 the pots should be of a light sandy nature : a mixture 

 of leaf-mould and sand, with yery little loam, is the 

 safest compound to preserve them in. When the roots 

 are started in the spring, they make excellent plants ; 

 and, in most cases, four roots out of six so treated 

 start, and thus secure the rarest sorts from being lost, 

 as is often the case with cuttings the second season. 

 (pard: Mag. iy. 429, X.S.) 



Mr. Hogg has some judicious directions for this 

 mode of increasing the dahlia, obseiwing that nothing 

 is more simple and easy. Place, he says, the roots 

 in a hothouse, about the first of March, (many begin 

 in February,) when they readily break, and throw out 

 young shoots, for cuttings, which ought to be taken 

 off when three inches long, and planted in 4S pots, 

 three or four in a pot, or one in a 60, and which may 

 remain in the same place till they take root. 



Those who haye not this convenience, including 

 most of the private growers, must provide some 

 stable-dung and litter, about the beginning or middle 

 of February, and prepare a hotbed, on which a cu- 



