About the beginning of February is as good a time as any for taking cuttings; select some good tope from the very best sorts that are out; get as many thumb-pots as you will require for the purpose; fill them with rich turfy mould, and put one cutting into each pot; but previous to filling the pots let them be well drained with broken charcoal or potsherds; then with a piece of round stick make a hole an inch deep, fill it with silver sand, and then put in the cutting, giving the pot a slight tap on the potting.board to settle the soil; dip a piece of stick into some water, and hold it downwards, in order that three or four drops may fall close to the side of the cutting; this will settle the whole together, and the quantity of water will be quite sufficient for three or four days; after that add a little more in a similar way, or with a fine-rosed watering pot as may be thought needful. When you have finished this part of the work, let all the pots be plunged in a slight bottom-heat, say from 65° to 70o; give a little air in the daytime, to prevent the cuttings from damping off - R., in Gardener's Chronicle.

* Waite's Dan O'Rourxe Pea. - I quite agree with the writer of your Calender that this is an invaluable early Pea. In January last I purchased two quarts of it, which I sowed on the 3d of February; on the 12th of April they were one mass of bloom; by the 1st of May I gathered pods fit for table, and by the 24th the forward pods were too old for use. I have been accustomed to consider the 24th of May early, even for the first gathering, to say nothing of having them spoiling for want of using. The flavor of this Pea is excellent, the pods are large and full, and universally admired. - H Arnold, in Gardener's Chronicle.