advantage, be placed in a warmer room ; as ad- 
ditional excitement, when the plant is coming into 
flower, produces on it a very genial influence. 
These gay shrubs may be easily increased from 
cuttings of the young wood, taken off about mid- 
summer. Take a pot, according to the size of the 
bell-glass you intend using ; in the absence of a 
bell-glass use a large tumbler. Half-fill the pot with 
drainers, (that is, potsherds — broken pots; and if 
none of these can be had, soft bricks or tiles broken 
to pieces will sufiice), on these put a layer of sandy 
peat, and on the top of this, a layer an inch deep of 
silver sand, which may be had of any nurseryman. 
Wet this to make it solid, and it will be fit to receive 
the cuttings. Press on the sand, the glass with 
which the cuttings are to be covered, that it may leave 
an impression of its size, as a guide for inserting 
the cuttings. When cuttings are taken from the 
terminations of old branches, they must be cut off 
at the union of the young wood with the old; but 
if cuttings be chosen that have sprung from the 
sides of old shoots, they may be slipped off", and 
the ragged ends shortened, which will fit them for 
insertion. They should then be inserted in the 
sand, so deep as nearly to reach the peat, through 
the sand, have a gentle w^atering, and the glass may 
then be turned over them to remain. If put in a 
gentle hot-bed the cuttings will strike much sooner; 
they may, however, be kept in any convenient place, 
chiefly in the shade, and will require to be regu- 
larly watered. The glass should be removed for 
a few minutes occasionally, from the cuttings, and 
wiped dry. 
