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32 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING 
form and penetrate the moss and the layer can be cut off and 
planted. 
The process of inarching is rarely resorted to in the propagation 
of ornamentals and the same is true with budding and grafting 
in Florida. Full instructions for these operations can be found 
in any good work on gardening. Some of the palms send up 
suckers from or near the ground and these often send out roots 
but it is sometimes difficult to make them grow when they are 
cut off. If one will make an incision at the base of a sucker, set 
a pot or box of earth under it, digging out below if necessary, he 
can catch these roots and when the plant is established cut off the 
connection with the parent. In this way not only palm suckers 
but a variety of others, even limbs of trees, may be made into 
fine plants. 
The entire process of propagation and all that is connected 
with it are among the most delightful experiences of the plant 
lover and gardener. What joy can be sweeter than actually to 
witness the creation of living organisms,—to see the plumules — 
pushing their way up through the earth? What is there more 
delightful than to feel that these dear little things are your very 
own, that, in partnership with nature, you have helped to bring 
them into existence? Only a true lover of plants can ever feel 
the pleasure of digging up a cutting he has planted and finding 
at its base a heavy white callus, or the delicate, young, soft 
roots pushing out. He realizes that in his hand he holds the pos- 
sibility, perhaps, of a noble and beautiful tree which may live 
through generations, to cheer and bless mankind long after he 
has passed away. 
