CUTTINGS. 
which requires a different treatment: 
—Seft wooded greenhouse plants, 
such as Geraniums, Fuchsias, 
Brugmansias, Petunias, Verbenas, 
Tropeolums, Maurandyas, e. 
These may have cuttings taken off 
in spring, or at almost any period 
during summer, and planted in 
sandy soil, with or without a glass 
over them, and with or without bot- 
Fig. $.—Cutting of Aveoa Alata. 
tom heat. They may be considered 
as the easiest of all cuttings to 
strike, the principal art consisting 
in cutting the shoot across, through, 
or immediately under the joint, with 
a clean cut, preserving a few of the 
leaves on, and making the lower 
end of the cutting quite firm in the 
sandy soil in which it is planted. 
In the summer time, such cuttings 
may be planted in the free soi! ; and 
at other seasons, in order te admit 
of protection, in pots. In which- 
ever mode they are planted, they 
must be kept in the shade, and ina 
uniform state in regard to moisture, 
till they have begun to grow. Their 
growing is an indication of their 
having taken root, when they 
should be taken up, and each plant- 
ed in a separate pot. 
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CUTTINGS. 
Hard-wooded greenhouse plants, 
such as Camellias, Myrtles, ever- 
green Acacias, and most Cape and 
Australian shrubs, with compara- 
tively broad leaves, are a degree 
or two more difficult to strike than 
Geraniums and Fuchsias. The 
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Fig. 10.—Cutting of a Camellia. 
points of the shoots, after the spring 
regrowth has been completed, and 
before the young wood is thorough- 
ly ripened, should be used ; and the 
soil should contain a large propor- 
tion of sand, and be thoroughly 
drained. If cuttings of this kind 
are put in during autumn, they re- 
| quire to be kept through the winter 
under glass, and they will not pro- 
duce roots till spring; but if the 
plants have made their growth, as 
most Australian shrubs do, in Feb- 
ruary or March, and the cuttings 
| are taken off and planted in these 
; months, they will root that same 
season, and be fit to transplant into 
small pots in the course of the sum- 
mer. ‘To accomplish this object, it 
is common with cultivators to force 
| forward the plants from which cut- 
tings are to be taken, by removing 
them from the greenhouse to the 
hothouse in January; and after 
| they have made their shoots, to 
harden these before making the cut- 
tings, by removing the plants back 
‘again to the greenhouse. Most 
