CHAPTER. Vi 
j STARTING PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS 
HILE many plants are best started from 
seed, as described in the preceding 
chapter, there are many which cannot be 
so reproduced; especially named varieties which 
will not come true from seeds, but revert to older 
and inferior types. 
Also it very frequently happens that one has a 
choice plant of some sort of which the seed is not 
to be obtained, and in this case also it becomes neces- 
sary to reproduce the plant in some other way. 
Where large numbers of plants are to be started, 
and they may be had from seed, that is usually the 
best way in which to work up a supply: but where 
only a few are wanted, as for house plants or use 
in a small garden, propagation by cuttings is the 
quickest and most satisfactory method. Practically 
all of the house plants, including most of those 
which can be started from seed, may be increased 
in this way. 
The matter of first importance, when starting 
plants by this system, is to have strong, healthy 
cuttings of the right degree of hardiness. Take 
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