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and all pointing in one direction. The bundles are buried hori- 

 zontally in moist sand, peatmoss, or sawdust, and stored in a 

 temperature of 35 to 40 degrees. In the spring the cuttings should 

 have callused and are taken out of storage and planted in sandy 

 soil with only an inch or two of their tips showing above the 

 surface. 



'iG. 8. Rooted lilac cutting. 



Root Cuttings. — The statement has been made in print that lilacs 

 can lie propagated by root cuttings practically always with success. 

 While not going so far as to say that this is not so, our limited ex- 

 perience has been to the contrary. For example, on May 15th 

 about twenty root cuttings (two to three inches long, of pencil 



