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turfy soil, to keep the soil in which the cuttings are placed from being washed 
amongst the drainage. Then fill up the pot with a mixture of equal parts of sand 
and heath mould, well beaten up but not sifted. 
3. Plant the cuttings about half an inch deep and an inch apart, placing the 
outer row close to the edge of the pot. Set them pretty fast, with a small dibber, 
and give them a gentle watering to settle the soil about them ; then plunge the pots 
in a hot-bed frame, or other gentle heat, and shade and treat them as other cuttings. 
4. When they have taken root, give them air for a few days previous to potting 
them off into single pots. 
5. Pot them into sixty-sized pots, and be careful to give a good drainage. The 
best sort of soil to use for the first potting is composed of one-third peat, one-third 
turfy loam, and one third sand. 
6. When potted, give them a little water, with a rose watering-pot ; plunge them 
again in a hot-bed or tan-pit, and shade them for a few days until they have begun 
to grow; and by the end of June they will have become fine young plants. 
7. About the beginning of July they will require repotting, and the greater part 
of them will be large enough to place in forty-eight-sized pots. The soil for this 
time of potting may differ somewhat from the last, by adding instead of the sand a 
little leaf mould. 
8. When potted, again plunge them in a good brisk moist heat, and keep them 
shut close for a few days, and they will grow rapidly, and towards winter will 
show abundance of flower-buds ; when they may be removed to the green-house, 
until it is wished to bring them into flower. 
9. The best way of bringing them into flower is to place them in a close hot-bed 
frame, scarcely ever admitting any air, and occasionally syringing over the leaves 
with clear water, and watering the soil in the pots with diluted liquid sheep’s 
manure. 
10. When the flowers become expanded, remove them to the green-house, where 
they will flower for some time. 
11. The best time for potting is early in the spring, say from the beginning to 
the middle of March. 
12. The G. radicans is propagated by cuttings in the same manner as the jio- 
nda , but the best time to put them in is October ; the same kind of soil suits them 
as the former, but they flower much sooner ; for after they are struck and trans- 
planted into sixty-sized pots, they flower the following spring. 
