Select the cuttings you desire to propagate from the parent plant, and cut it through with a sharp knife just below the third pair of leaves from the top of the cutting; this done, cut off half the length of every leaf on the cutting except the two lower ones, which are to be removed altogether. Now you will fill quite a small pot with one-half soil and one-half sand; make it smooth, and insert your cutting in the center from one to one-and-a-half inches in depth. Water well, place a hard glass or tumbler over it, and set it aside. This glass will gather moisture, and should be removed every day and wiped dry, and again replaced. You can, by this means, stake your cuttings in a room of your house with as much ease, and with as much certainty of their living, as within a greenhouse. Cuttings thus prepared may be readily rooted in a window or in a room, from May to October, without failure. I find a very good way to start cuttings to be in a raisin box of sand, filling the same with the cuttings half an inch apart, and keeping them well watered.

Layering is not so certain, and requires more care than the above method, nevertheless it is well to know how you are to do it. With a sharp knife you will remove the leaves from the second or third joint of the plant, without separating the same from the parent stock; having done this, carefully cut a slit close under and half through the joint, being very careful not to separate the shoot from the main stem. Have ready your small pot sunk in the ground, in the soil which you cover your layer with. You will now peg the layer down with a small twig hook, and your work is done. Shade these from the sun while rooting; and when rooted sever from the parent plant, and you have an independent plant, thrifty and reliable. - Ollipod Quill, in Forest and Stream,