The American gardener's magazine and register of useful discoveries and improvements in horticulture and rural affairs . s likely to be adopted, as wellby the amateur cottage matron, with her pinks and wallflowers, as by theprofessed jiropagater of valuable exotics. It is as follows:—Take awide-mouthed 4B-si7,ed pot, for example, and crock it in the usual man-ner with broken tiles, &c.; then take a wide-mouthed small sixty, andput a piece of clay in the bottom of it to stop the hole; then place itinside the other, on the toji of the crocking, so that the brims of both potsmay be on a level. Th
The American gardener's magazine and register of useful discoveries and improvements in horticulture and rural affairs . s likely to be adopted, as wellby the amateur cottage matron, with her pinks and wallflowers, as by theprofessed jiropagater of valuable exotics. It is as follows:—Take awide-mouthed 4B-si7,ed pot, for example, and crock it in the usual man-ner with broken tiles, &c.; then take a wide-mouthed small sixty, andput a piece of clay in the bottom of it to stop the hole; then place itinside the other, on the toji of the crocking, so that the brims of both potsmay be on a level. Then fill in the space between the pots with sand, orother propagating soil, according to the nature of the plant about to bepropagated, and let the cuttingsbe inserted in the manner here shown(fig, 5), with their lower extremities against the inner pot. Plunge thepot in a cutting frame, or under a bell or hand-glass, in a shady placeout of doors, according to the nature of the cuttings and the seasou ofthe year; and let the inner pot be fiHed and kept full of water. 112 Revieiv of Loudo/is Gardener^s The advantages to be derived from this method are numerous, andmust be evident even to the casual ol)server; the principal of these are5 the regularity of the sup|)ly of moisture, without any chance of saturation; the pow-er of examininj; the state of the cuttinjfs atany time, without injuring them, by liftingout the inner pot; the superior drainage,so essential in propagating, by havingsuch a thin layer of soil; the roots being|)laceil so near the sides of both pots; antlthe facility with which the plants, whenrooted, can be |)arted for potting off, bytaking out the inner pot, and with a com-mon talile-knife, or the like, cutting outevery jdant with its ball, without the awk-ward, but often necessary, process of turn-ing the pot upside down to get out thecuttings. In^g. 5, a shows the clay stopping of the pot; h the drainage ofpotsherds, or broken crocks; c the sand or
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