PROPAGATING AND PRESERVING GERANIUMS. 
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ARTICLE VIII. 
ON PROPAGATING AND PRESERVING GERANIUMS. 
13 V MVSELF. 
Tiie following method practised during winter, may perhaps be 
useful to such of your readers as do not possess a greenhouse, but 
are admirers of the brilliant effect produced by the Scarlet Gera¬ 
nium in the open borders. I have tried it several years with great 
success, and trust its simplicity may be a recommendation. Cuttings 
should be taken in the month of September or October, and planted 
in a warm situation under a hand glass. They should remain in the 
ground in the winter, and at night the glass should be covered with a 
mat to keep out the frost. In April or May, or as soon as the wea¬ 
ther will allow, they should be removed into the open border without 
disturbing their roots, and they will soon become fine plants and 
bloom plentifully. Damp is very injurious in the cold weather, and 
therefore, if possible, they should never be'watered during that Lime, 
and all decayed leaves should be carefully picked off’. Cuttings of 
many other kinds of Geraniums, if struck in pots in the summer or 
autumn, will bear much more exposure to the cold than older plants. 
August 27th, 1833. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
ARTICLE IX. -PECULIARITIES OF PLANTS, 
With some Observations on those which possess, or arc supposed to possess the 
power to entrap Insects. 
bv Joseph paxton, f. l. s. h. s. —(Continued from page 336J 
Our former remarks on this subject were chiefly confined to some of 
the plants having peculiar appendages attached either to their leaves 
or some other part of the plants, into which, being hollow and contain¬ 
ing a liquid, insects of different kinds are, from some unknown motive, 
induced to enter, and from which, on account of certain impediments, 
they are totally unable to escape ; consequently the hollow appendage 
becomes their grave, but whether their death is necessary to the well¬ 
being of the plant we cannot decide, and therefore we leave the ques¬ 
tion as we found it. We now propose to notice a few of those which 
have the power of entrapping insects by the contractility or irritabi- 
bility existing either in the leaf or flower. Amongst those possessing 
irritability' in their leaves, none are more remarkable than the Dionaca 
