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THE PLOTTER GAEDE^. 



planting time, it will save labour and increase the size 

 and healthiness of the plants to turn them out of their 

 pots or cutting-pans into low pits or frames ; and a light 

 sandy compost will serve for them to grow in. If six 

 inches of this is placed over a very light bottom-1: 

 plants will soon make rapid growth ; and yon will have 

 the advantage of an abnndance of cuttings for propaga- 

 tion, if wanted. Calceolarias. Petunias. Verbenas, and 

 such things, answer best for this ; but where time and 

 pot-room are objects. Scarlet Geraniums, and nearly 

 every variety of bedding-out stuff, may be managed on 

 the above plan. Before planting time, the plants should 

 be checked by raising them once or twice with a spade. 

 Put in root-cuttings, in a brisk bottom-heat, of Bouvar- 

 dias. and some kinds of geraniums difficult to strike in 

 the ordinary wav. or of which cuttings are scarce to be 

 got." 



Golden Bod — SoJidago. — In general, tall, ugly things, 

 flowering in autumn, only lit to serve as a screen for 

 a pin-stye, or to be stubbed up and burnt with the rest 

 of the weeds and garden refuse. We are possessed of 

 more than sixty species ; too many, by half, and not 

 worth naming. Propagate, if you will, by root-division. 

 Will grow anywhere and ornament nowhere. 



Grass. — Besides their utility for lawns and edgings, 

 many of the grasses, or gramineous plants are decidedly 

 ornamental. Both the Quaking Grasses, Briza media, 

 a perennial, and JB. maxima, an a ma h species, serve for 

 winter bouquets, and are pretty while growing. Peather- 

 grass. Stipa pennata, has its glumes elongated into some- 

 thing like a Bird-oi^Paradise plume: gro^vs in any dry 

 soil, and increases by tillering at the root. Tne Cotton 

 Grasses. Friophorum, of which three or four species 

 grow wild in England, are seldom seen in gardens, simply 

 because they must have a marsh to grow in : but their 

 singular white tufts are worth some trouble to introduce 

 as ornaments to the margin of a pond. Praser's Sedge, 

 Car ex Fraseriana. merits culture in similar spots. Arv.ndo 

 Donas, is a bold tali reed, which will support our win- 



