HYDRANGEA HORTENSIS. 
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tings in July or tlie beginning of August from some old plants, 
suckers will do, though I should prefer cuttings, as not being so apt 
to throw up suckers. Place half a dozen in each forty-eight sized 
pot, the extent of the place must be considered in determining the 
number of plants intended to be raised. Two dozens will look very 
well all through the summer, in a middle sized greenhouse. The 
soil in which I pot them is half loam with leaf-mould and manure. 
As soon as the cuttings are potted, I give them water, place them in 
a mild heat, inside a frame, and keep the principal heat of the sun 
from them until they possess roots. They may be placed along the 
side of a north wall, with a hand-glass over them, and as soon as 
they are tolerably rooted, they should be potted singly into sixty’s. 
From thence they may be removed and exposed to the open air, ta¬ 
king care that they have not too much rain to rot the roots. Place 
them in the greenhouse in the month of September, and if they have 
a good situation, at the warmest end of the house, as similar decidu¬ 
ous trees, they will retain their foliage. At the beginning of Janu¬ 
ary, place two dozens in the pine stove, and as soon as it is evident 
which will flower, pot them into forty-eights and reject the others. 
Those which remain in the stove should be placed near the glass, 
allowing them as much light and air as convenient until the flower 
begins to assume a pink colour and to expand. Thence remove them 
into the greenhouse. The' head, magnificent with flowers, will be 
very fine all through the summer, and a succession will be brought 
forward every month. How frequently they are seen in a large peck 
pot, perhaps with a dozen heads of flowers. This system may cause 
the plauts to exhibit a splendid appearance, but they are not so 
handsome or neat as those with a single head over a small one, from 
one foot to one and a half in altitude, including the pot, and the pe¬ 
rimeter of the head two feet. The dwarfish character of the plants 
adds chiefly to their beauty, together with the extent which each 
flower attains. When suckers issue, clear them away, for they 
greatly diminish the size of the flower. Perhaps this process may 
be new to some of the readers of the Horticultural Register. 
My motive for sending the particulars is to induce other young 
gardeners to offer their opinions, with a view to the improvement of 
any tree as common as the Hydrangea Hortensis. 
Ashby de la Zouch, July 1st, 1833. 
