above the layers, and having raised the newly made 
roots, carefully separate each young shoot from the 
main layer, by passing a small knife from one ring 
to the other, cutting out about one third part of the 
old stem. The young plants should then be imme- 
diately potted, to remain till they are required for 
planting out in their final situations. After thus ga- 
thering the first crop of young plants, the old layers 
should be again covered with good soil, and left as 
before ; and in the following summer a second, and 
greater, crop of plants will be produced than in the 
first season ; and w hat is most remarkable, they will 
issue from various parts of the stem, where no trace 
of a bud was previously indicated. 
Again,if a stem be detached from the parent plant, 
and treated as described above, and then laid in soil, 
in a pine-pit or stove, it will shoot almost as freely 
as if connected with the original root. 
In another experiment, cuttings of about an inch 
in length, were made of the Pzeonia Moutan, in the 
manner of vine cuttings, having one bud on each, 
and about half of the stem, behind the bud, slit off, 
and the pith removed : these were put, three inches 
deep, in pots of soil, and plunged into an exhausted 
bark bed, having a temperature of about sixty de- 
grees. In the space of two months, these cuttings 
made young shoots through the soil, and grew 
freely. 
The above ready methods of propagating a plant, 
hitherto expensive, are truly valuable. They are not 
the results of our own experience, but we witnessed 
the success of part of the experiments ; and can rely 
upon the accuracy of the whole. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 315. 
