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the size of the bottom is fitted in each case filled with water, and heated by the 

 flame of either a lamp or gas jet beneath. The top is of glass and can be lifted 

 at any time fresh air is needed. A thermometer completes the equipment. It 

 is very simple and successful. The heat can be run up to any desired point and 

 the lady who uses it can soon mitiate herself into the mystciies and piactice 

 of rooting, cutting and propagating fine bedding plants. 



Fig. 19 is a propagating box made of earthen ware, with grooves in the top 

 for a pane of glass to slide up and down with a cover. The heat thus generated 

 can be retained for a considerable length of time by closing the glass top. They 

 are very suitable for starting soft wooded cuttings in sand. 



Fig. 18 Fig. 19. 



A forcing stand may be erected like this in Fig. 20. It consists of a wrought 

 iron frame of ornamental design with two stories. In each story there is a row of 

 double pans, the bottom one containing water which is heated by a patent kerosene 

 lamp, keeping the temperature of the inner pan about 100°. In tliis inner pan 

 are placed mould, sand or loam, wherein the pots are plunged. The heat of the 

 water is communicated directly through the sand to the cutting or seeds which 

 wiU germinate in a few days. 



All cultivators need to know that for propagating 

 purposes, there is needed heat and moisture, and to 

 be successful you need a greater bottom heat than sur- 

 face heat, and also, still, quiet atmosphere. 



If this case is used in a room where the tempera- 

 ture is usually quite mild, no glass covering will be 

 needed; still if it isneeded, a case like that described 

 in the former pari of this chapter may be constructed 

 for each shelf. If pots are used in these little cases* 

 |==_ they should be very small, not over two inches in di- 



^ ameter. 



\^^^ Such little contrivances as these render it compara- 

 tively easy for any lady to raise her own Verbenas, 

 Pelargoniums, or other simple plants, and would undoubtedly do more to 

 please and instruct children and visitors, by way of amusement, than the whole 

 apparatus originally cost. 





