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plants , this must be carefully avoided. Also water the borders 
round each pot, rather farther than the compass of each glass, 
then gently press your glasses over each, and this completes the 
operation. 
If the weather be very hot I generally throw a light thin 
cover over the glasses, from about ten till the sun leaves them 
at one, and take off the glasses early in a morning, once in five 
or six days, just as I find it necessary to water them as before; 
being careful to rake the glass mark pretty well out, the better 
to make the glasses as air-tight again as possible,by pressing them 
gently over the pots as in the first instance; this is a very im¬ 
portant matter, and must have your particular care. About the 
middle or end of July you will have fine healthy plants, the leaves 
curling backwards to the ground, and rooted like a seedling ; 
that will live though the severest winter in the open garden, 
without any protection at all. At that time I take off the glasses, 
and remove the pots to a shady part of the garden, to check 
their growth a little if getting too luxuriant, there to remain 
ready for planting out, potting, or sending away. By this mode 
of propagation I calculate on every piping producing me a 
beautiful plant. 
I do sometimes in a convenient place on the border leave six 
or eight of the outside shoots, or layers of a favorite, for a second 
year’s blooming, not laying them for rooting but pegging them 
down, equidistant round the old stool; and at the proper time in 
the spring, I place a neat stick for the support of each flower 
stem, or in a circle round the stool, at the top of which I fix 
a light wire hoop to keep the sticks erect and at a proper dis¬ 
tance from each other; by this method I have had from 50 to 
100 blooms at the same time, upon a single plant. 
The foregoing is not intended to call in question the know¬ 
ledge or judgment as a cultivator of your correspondent Philo 
Caryophyllus; far from it: but is entirely intended for the advan¬ 
tage of those who do not happen to be acquainted with the 
matter it contains, and I think P. C. will acquit me of any such 
intention. 
You will confer an obligation on myself and others of your 
readers if you will give it place in your next number. 
Macclesfield. 
Senex. 
