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remainder of the pot should be filled with fine sifted pit-sand, as free as possible 
from earthy or irony matter, to the level of the edg-e, and the sand pressed down 
very firm. After being well watered, the pot is then fit to receive the cuttings, 
the length of which must depend on the habit of the species. Some of the free 
growing sorts may be about an inch and a half long; and others that are of a 
more stunted growth, may not exceed half an inch : in both cases they should be 
taken from the plant at the part where the young cutting sets off from the older 
wood. The leaves should be stripped off about half the length of the cutting, and 
the end should be cut clean with a sharp knife or scissors; the cutting is then 
fit to be inserted. Let the kinds selected for the same pot be as near of the same 
habit as can be judged, for instance, plant E. melastdmu, Petiveridna, Petiueria, 
Scbdna, penicilldta, ^c. in one pot, and E. plnea, pinifdlia, vestita, grandijldray 
purpiirea, ^c. in another pot; E. ventricosa,prcegnans, Linncednn, LinncBoides, 
colordns, ^e., in another ; and E. Aitonidna, J(wniniJldra, aynpulldcea, Irbydna, 
infldttty ^c.y in another; for unless this be attended to, one sort will strike root in 
a much shorter time than others in the same pot, which makes it very inconve¬ 
nient when potting them out. When the pot is filled with cuttings it should be 
well watered with a fine rose-watering pot, and placed in a close shady part of 
the stove, admitting as little air as possible near to where the cutting-pots are 
placed, and taking care to water them every day. Bell glasses are not necessary 
for Heaths in general; some species, as E.glaicca, aiirea, tujcifoliuy and a few 
other species more difficult to strike, may be put under bell glasses, and placed 
in the stove beside the others. Where no stove is at hand to put the cutting-pots 
in, and where the situation in which they are to be placed has much air, then 
bell-glasses are absolutely necessary. The glasses will require to be wiped occa¬ 
sionally, to prevent any damp from injuring the cuttings; and when they have 
struck root the glasses should be removed gradually, some time before the cuttings 
are potted out. Cuttings of Heaths will strike root when put in at any season, if 
the cuttings are in a proper state ; early in the spring, however, is the best time 
for them. When the cuttings are rooted, they should be potted into the smallest 
sized pots, and kept for ten days or a fortnight, in a close shaded place ; then 
expose them gradually to a more airy part of the house, shading them from the 
sun till they are able to bear it. The soil for the first potting should be one-half 
peat and one-half sand : drain the pots well with broken pots or cinders. The 
second potting must depend much on the season of the year ; if the first potting 
be done in spring, the second should be as soon as the young roots appear round 
the insides of the pots ; but if the first potting be done in summer, then the second 
will not be necessary until the following spring. The soil for the second potting 
should be about two-thirds peat and one-third sand; and in all the pottings the 
soil should be a black peat, taken from a dry heath or common, which is never 
overflowed with water. In general, it should not be taken more than five or six 
inches deep ; and where sand is not intermixed with the soil in its original state, 
about one-fifth of coarse white sand, free from irony matter, should be mixed with 
it. In shifting Heaths from one pot or tub to another, any time from March till 
August may be taken, as opportunity permits, or the state of the plants require. 
Before beginning to shift I have a quantity of the soil already mentioned, riddled 
through a very coarse or wide meshed riddle,—if the plants are small, of eourse 
the riddle should be smaller. Either broken pot or cinders, may be used for 
draining, whichever is most convenient: there is scarcely any danger of giving 
too much draining. The plant should be raised a little higher in the pot at each 
shifting than it had been before, so that after two or three shiftings the old ball 
about the stem of the plant should be raised two or three inches above the level 
