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water and top dressings will do the work. We have 

 had peaches, cherries and figs to remain many years 

 in the same tubs, bearing fruit annually as Ireely as 

 could be desired. 



Grape vines from eyes may now be propagated. 

 Cut the shoot immediately above an eye, and about 

 one inch below. Mix them with slightly damp moss 

 for a couple of days or so, and then insert up to the 

 buds or eyes in sand with a bottom heat of 70°, 

 Native grapes having harder wood may be retained 

 in the moss for two weeks, when the wood will be 

 softened sufficiently to strike root at once. 



GREENHOUSE PLANTS, &C. 



Geraniums, PelargoniumSj Cinerarias, and Chi- 

 nese Primroses must be kept as near the glass and 

 light as possible ; they do little good in shady places. 

 Keep off the green Aphis — for this on a small scale 

 there is nothing like hot water ; o-n a large scale, 

 tobacco-smoke in several successive light doses is 

 still the best remedy. 



Fuchsias may now be readily struck from the 

 young growth from the old plants, which will make 

 excellent blooming plants tor the next summer 

 season. 



Chrysanthemums should now be raised from cut- 

 tings for fall flowering. They make better blooming 

 plants than off-sets. 



Auriculas, Carnations, Pinks and Polyanthus — 

 the prettiest of florist's flowers must be kept cool, 

 just free from frost, with plenty of air if the best 

 results are desired. 



Pansies are coming now into flower. They like 

 an airy frame, where they will not be roasted at 

 mid-day nor exposed to drying winds, and yet have 

 a free circulation of air and plenty of light. Planted 

 out in such a frame, and the old shoots cut away as 

 soon as the plant has done flowering, the plants 

 will keep healthy over till the next season. 



Superior varieties can be raised from seed. Choose 

 those with the roundest petals, best colors, and the 

 first flowers that open, to raise seed from. 



New Holland and Cape plants, such as Epacris, 

 Acacia, Heaths, etc. , are now the glory of the green- 

 house ; hot bursts of sun on them should be avoided, 

 as it lays in them the seeds of ' 'consumption, ' ' which 

 frequently carries them off the following summer. 



Azaleas succeed well by grafting with the half ripe 

 shoots of the present season's growth on plants raised 

 either by seeds or cuttings. Old wood does not take 

 readily. 



Camellias will require rather more water while 

 growing than at other times. Just before they grow 

 is a good season to graft. Cut down the stock, cleft 



graft in the crown, wax, and plunge in a bottom 

 heat of 70°. A great many kinds may be had on 

 one plant by the bottle system, practiced by the 

 writer's father, thirty years ago. A shoot about to 

 grow is obtained and attached to the stock as in 

 inarching, the end of the shoot being put in a small 

 phial of water suspended beneath it. This plan does 

 best, however, with the young wood in July. 



Look out for a good stock of bedding plants in 

 time; by striking cuttings of such things as giow 

 rapidly and speedily, and sowing seeds of such an- 

 nuals as may be advanced to advantage. 

 * Dahlias should now be brought forward. A good 

 plan is to shorten the extremity of the roots, put 

 them in six inch pots and place in a warm green- 

 house. In a few M^eeksthey will sprout, when they 

 should be shaken out, divided with a piece of root to 

 each sprout and separately potted in 4-inch pots. 



{JemmeiiirafioHS* 



GRAFTED ROSES. 



BY MR. E. FRYER, GARDNER TO L. ELLSWORTH. ESQ. , 

 NAPERVILLE, ILLS. 



I have read with much pleasure the communication 

 of Orchis in the January number of the Monthly on 

 Roses, and being myself for some years past exten- 

 sively engaged in the propagation of Roses, Grapes, 

 &c., thought I would pen some of my little 

 experience. 



Friend Orchis seems to think it somewhat object- 

 tionable to see Nurserymen so frequently advertise 

 roses "on their own roots." I think they should, and 

 probably all do, feel a very laudable pride in doing so. 

 I regard it as an evidence of the advance of the 

 propagating art, to be able to dispense with the 

 abominable Manetti ; which, for the purposes of 

 propagating has been used principally because it 

 facilitated the process. I have tried all methods of 

 propagating the Rose, with a view to the production 

 not only of the greatest quantity, but also of the best 

 quality of plants, time and facilities considered. 

 Think I have not hastily condemned the Manetti. 

 Have used the stem for budding, and the root for 

 grafting, but for the past two years have discontin- 

 ued to use it as a stock in any shape ; rooted up all 

 the stumps old and young, piled them on a part of 

 the land w*here young roses were to be planted, and 

 set fire to the mass. In this way I found them the 

 most useful. Orchis suggests as the best possible 

 method of producing the best class of plants, to graft 

 on the Manetti roots. Must 1 grow eight or ten thou- 

 sand Manetti every year, to raise fifty or sixty thou- 



