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IKISII (iAKDEMNU. 



what i.s soineti 

 is siinplv tlu' 

 kept cl 



IK-S I 



sand 



close and cxjioscd to 

 ) .shading whatever. T 

 list be very fretiiiently 

 ic lose watering l>t>( . 1 

 line iiiiisl he ivept eout ' 



. I tl 

 lidwi'ver. that plants propagated in tins w 

 inelineil to lie more weakly than tliosc prod 

 Ity the usual methods. 



l^)ot eat tings are i 

 pans tilled with sand, 

 soiiu' of the thick 

 tiesliy roots. eiU them 

 into i)ieees about 1 

 ineh or l.\ inches long, 

 and push them in 

 upright jtosition into 

 the sand with the 

 u])per end ju.st iukUm- 

 the surface. In a few 

 cases, such as the 

 I'ulnionarias. An- 

 emones, &c., the 

 roots are better laid 

 Hat in the .^and and 

 just covered. When 

 lilled the pans must 

 l)e watered and stood 

 in a cold frame and 

 accorded then t h e 

 s a m e treatment as 

 ad\ised for the ordin- 

 aiy cutting frame: 

 when the root cut- 

 tings have formed a 

 crown and pushed a 

 few leaves above tlie 

 surface they should 

 be i-e moved ant 

 either ]) o t t e d or 

 l)()xed off in gritty 

 soil with i)lenty of 

 leaf mould added. 



.Such things as Sed- 

 ums will grow freely 

 f lom leaves pressed into sand, as also will Ramon- 

 dias if the leaf-veins be cut through with a sharj) 

 knife and the leaf laid flat on sand and pegged 

 ilown, crowns will form at the cuts, and even- 

 tually young plants will be produced. 



To go through a complete Hst of alpines, 

 giving their proper season and full details of 

 propagation. Mould occupy too much space, but 

 hints on a few families generally grown may be 

 useful. 



AuBRiETiAS. — After flowering cut the plants 

 hard back, they will then produce young growths 

 which will make excellent cuttings in the later 



EUCKYI' 



.\ AT .MorxT l'.SHb:i;. 



opposill- 



proiiauaicd just after 



shoots of oppositilolia 



soft : single rosettes may be de- 



iciiisteil \aiieties and inserted as 



ia\ !)(■ torn to pieces with 



I Moiled straijiht away if large 



1 the" cutting 



lily almost at 



t il is 



ient to 



till the 



1. as earlier 



ould take up 



in the franu- 



which could be ])ut 



lo better use. 



\'iOLAS. — An t umn 

 (■ u 1 1 i n gs of young 

 shoots produced from 

 the centres of the 

 |)lants. 



(' A M PA N U LA.S. — 



Take cuttings of the 

 >oiing soft growths 

 as they appear in 

 early summer. 



lilANTHUS. — The 



best cuttings can 



sually be obtained 



(luring the latter part 



of the summer. 



L ITHOSPERMUM. — 



Take the young soft 

 growths early, a per- 

 centage may d a m p 

 off, but on the whole 

 better results are ob- 

 tained than by taking 

 cuttings of old wood. 

 In a word, the 

 secret of successful 

 ])ropagation ist o be 

 examining our plants 

 young growths just 



always on the alert, 



so as to obtain the 



at the proper stage, and if we do so we find that 



from early summer till autiimn there will be 



something just right for taking. 



Morisia hypogcea, Wablenbergia gracilis, An- 

 chusa myosotidiflora, &c., do well from root cut- 

 tings inserted as already mentioned ; this may be 

 done after the plants have passed out of flower. 



It is a good plan, when all other means of 

 ])ropagation fail, to try root cuttings, as quite a 

 surprising lot of [)lants will Ik^ found to increase 

 in this way. 



