. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 362 CASSELKS POPULAR GAEDENIXG. nia-seiymen's catalogues in the present day seldom contain lists of varieties of named Petunias. In order to obtain cuttings, the best method is to keep a few i^lants through the winter in an ordinary green-house; and if these are put into a gentle heat in the month of February, they will break forth into a number of young growths ; and when these are from one and a half to two inches in length, they make excellent cuttings. If inserted in pans of silver sand or light sandy soil, kept thoroughly moist and placed in a bri
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 362 CASSELKS POPULAR GAEDENIXG. nia-seiymen's catalogues in the present day seldom contain lists of varieties of named Petunias. In order to obtain cuttings, the best method is to keep a few i^lants through the winter in an ordinary green-house; and if these are put into a gentle heat in the month of February, they will break forth into a number of young growths ; and when these are from one and a half to two inches in length, they make excellent cuttings. If inserted in pans of silver sand or light sandy soil, kept thoroughly moist and placed in a brisk heat, the cuttings will be rooted in a few days, and they should then be potted singly into small pots, in a light compost made up of silver sand, loam, and leaf-mould, bo placed in muke excellent plants for green-house and con- servatory decoration, lasting in bloom for a long time. The dwarf er and more compact - groxsing double varieties are well suited for tliis purpose. In order to have a good supply of plants, growers of Petunias for exhibition take some cuttings in August or early in September, and about a dozen of these are inserted in six-inch pots in good light soil, then watered very gently, and kept close in a frame and shaded for a week or so, and finally removed to a warm green-house to be kept for stock. In the early spring they put forth growths more quickly than do older plants, and they can he struck as indicated above. If extra strong specimen. PETUNIAS, Si:xGLE AND DorELE. heat again to get started into growth, and then removed to a cooler temperature to get hardened oif a little, and finally placed in the green-house. In order to make nice bushy plants of these, the main shoot should be pinched out, and as soon as fresh shoots are formed, the plants should be shifted into larger-sized jDots. Xever stop and re-pot at the same time, is a rule of universal application in cases of this kind. Those who have no heat, but desire to strike a few cuttings, must t
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