Echeveria metallica can be propagated by taking off tbe lateral growths and striking them in small pots in sand. They may be placed on the shelf of a dry stove, and sparingly supplied with water. By far the easiest and best way to increase your stock is to seed one of your plants, and sow the seed next spring. We saw thousands of this plant in a London nursery recently, all raised from seed. The plants grow more vigorously, and are more ornamental and shapely, than plants raised from cuttings. A plant kept in a pot in a greenhouse will seed more readily than one planted out in the open ground.