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ON THE PROPAGATION OF A FEW CLIMBING PLANTS. 
tender flowers, that might not be grown to a high perfection without any house 
whatever. The plan would be very available for those who could not have 
a greenhouse, and possess only a few frames destitute of heating apparatus. 
The plants, if carefully tended, would want no artificial warmth in winter, and 
frost might be excluded by ample external coverings. Where, again, only one 
house was possessed, this might be turned into a cool stove, thereby admitting 
a higher class of plants, which, with a little ingenuity, could be cultivated for the 
same expense as greenhouse species, seeing that a judicious summer and autumn 
management would leave nothing necessary for the winter but the exclusion of frost. 
Nor need those who have no lack of erections, be fearful lest such a practice 
should rob their greenhouses too much. It would merely take away the more 
hardy of the plants, and thereby admit of the remainder being treated in a more 
congenial manner. It is the hardier sorts that render it needful to make green- 
houses generally so dry and airy during the growing period, and if these were 
taken out, the rest might have both a moister and a closer atmosphere, to their 
great advantage. The choicer Pelargoniums, the Cacti, the herbaceous Calceolarias, 
the Camellias, the Epacrises, the Azaleas, and the more delicate of the Heaths, are 
some of the kinds that would not do for treating as we have proposed, and they 
would therefore remain for the adornment of the greenhouse. 
It may be observed that the plants thus made use of for plunging in the borders 
should not be grown in pots of too limited a size ; because, on being plunged, the 
roots would soon get through the bottom of a small pot, and the specimen would 
then be damaged at the time it was taken up. They should all be put into such 
pots in the spring as the season's growth demands ; for, when plunged, there will 
not be much danger of the soil becoming sour, as watering will not be nearly so 
often requisite. 
Let it not be thought that the plan here sketched would be less productive of 
pleasure than the culture of the same plants in a greenhouse. If pursued with 
propriety, selecting suitable sorts for its application, the plants will even be 
healthier and finer ; and they who ridicule what we have advanced, should certainly 
hesitate ere they discard a process which brings at least an equal amount of 
enjoyment at a diminished expense. We shall continue these economical hints as 
we may find opportunity. 
ON THE PROPAGATION OF A FEW CLIMBING PLANTS. 
It is a fact with which almost every experienced grower of ornamental shrubs 
must be familiar, that the early productiveness of the plants he rears will be in 
great part dependent on the manner in which they are raised. A specimen shrub, 
raised from seed, is always much longer in coming into a flowering state than one 
derived from a sucker. This, again, would be far slower in blooming than one 
