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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



A stock of Camellias or Heaths requires to be kept 

 up by going to market ; but no person need ever hb 

 at a loss to keep up a stock of geraniums by his own 

 exertions. All the species which have not bulbous 

 or other thick roots are propagated by cuttings of the 

 wood taken off at a joint where it is beginiiing t6 

 ripen ; and all the thick-rooted kinds, by bits of root 

 planted so as one quarter or half an inch of the root 

 may stand out of the earth. Cuttings in this way 

 may be taken off at any time during tlie summer sea- 

 son; and if there is a cucumber frame at work, by 

 plunging the pots in it, handsome plants may be ob- 

 tained in from one to three months froitl the time of 

 taking off the cutting. Many of the nurserymen 

 plant their cuttings in the open ground in a shady 

 border, and take them up and pot them in the autumn* 

 In some private gardens a number of cuttings of this 

 hardier kinds are every spring planted in the opeil 

 borders, where they make a fine show during sum- 

 mer ; and though they are killed by the first frost, it 

 is easy planting more cuttings the next season. In 

 other gardens, instead of planting cuttings in the 

 borders, the plants in pots when they grow old and 

 stubby, or aiiy way unsuitable, or too bulky for the 

 pot or space limited for them in the green -house, are 

 turned out in the borders early in spring, and produce 

 a farewell display of blossotiis before they are cut off 

 by the autumnal frosts. 



