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PROPAGATION 
A" ANY plants can be profitably propagated by cuttings 
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--- Among these are most quick-growing soft-wooded 
in a window with no exceptional care or skill. 
plants: Pelargoniums, Geraniums, Fuchsias, Mar- 
guerites, Begonias, Chrysanthemums, Carnations, 
and Roses yield to a patient endeavor. Many 
plants can also be grown from seeds with great ease, and one 
of the greatest pleasures of window-gardening is certainly to 
watch the development of quick- growing plants from the 
embryo. Cinerarias, Calceolarias, German Stocks, Chinese 
Primulas, and Wallflowers all grow with the greatest of 
ease. 
Cuttings or slips are made in different ways according to the 
nature of the wood. Soft-wooded cuttings are made of young 
growing, half ripened shoots with one or more leaves. For an 
example, take a brittle shoot of a Verbena with about six fully 
developed leaves, remove the three lower ones with a sharp 
knife and shorten the remaining ones slightly. Some soft- 
wooded cuttings require bottom heat, and can therefore not be 
successfully rooted in a room. Others, and chiefly those of 
greenhouse plants, require no bottom heat. Hard-wood cuttings 
take a considerable time to root and cannot, except in a few 
cases, be rooted in a window. All plants that cannot be prop- 
