This is another fine autumn flower, and well repays all the labour bestowed upon it. Where there is a great demand for them in long succession, it is advisable to put in a batch of cuttings in November, then another in February or March, if only for decorative purposes. Put these cuttings into a 3-inch pot, in equal parts of loam, leaf-mould, and sand; place them in a close frame until rooted; then they may stand in any light place where the frost is just kept from them. This is applicable to the November cuttings, always looking closely after them, so that they never get pot-bound, and shifting them into larger pots as the roots get to the sides of the pots. If properly attended to, the earliest lot will be ready for their blooming-pots about the end of May - 11-inch pots are large enough - giving them good rich soil. It can scarcely be made too rich for them, looking carefully after the drainage; if this gets wrong, when so much water is being given them, they get yellow leaves and become unhealthy, which tells on them when the blooming period arrives.

When finished potting, if a piece of ground can be got to plunge them where the sun, for about four hours in the middle of the day, did not strike on them, it would be all the better (although we have seen them do well in an open quarter in the garden). It is a good plan to put three small pots inverted in the bottom of the pit, to set the pots on. If the soil is carefully put round the pot, the triangle within the three pots will be left hollow: they will grow very fast after this, and will soon need to be stopped. If wanted early, they should not be pinched after the middle of August. Watering should be regularly attended to, and when the pots are full of roots, give manure-water about three times a-week, with good syringings overhead every evening after a bright day. If a handful of soot be put into a watering-pot filled full of water, and well stirred, and sprinkled over the plants through a rose the last thing in the evening, being careful that the whole of the foliage is thoroughly wet, and repeating the same thing the first thing in the morning with clean water, it gives the plants a healthy hue.

The same treatment is required for spring cuttings, but we do not put them into such large pots, and leave them about fifteen days later, pinching them the last time. We have a small white one, which was in bloom with us in the beginning of September, and, by having succession plants, it continued flowering until Christmas. It is the best for cutting purposes we know of.