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this case they are made from the new growth after 
it becomes firm and well ripened. It should be 
fresh and plump, and rooting will be made more 
certain by bottom heat. Often cuttings of hard- 
wooded plants, such as oleander, are rooted in plain 
water, in wide-mouthed bottles hung in a warm 
place in the sun, the water being frequently renewed 
or kept fresh with a lump or so of charcoal. 
Many of the shrubs are beautiful for summer 
blooming on the veranda or in large pots or tubs. 
These may be kept over winter safely by drying off 
and keeping in a frost-proof cellar where they will 
get little light. In this way they will come out 
again in the spring, just as hardy shrubs do out-of- 
doors. The earth should not be allowed to get dust 
dry, but should not be more than slightly moist; 
very little, and often no, water is required, especially 
if mulching of some sort is put over the earth in 
pots or boxes; but it should not be any material that 
would harbor rats or mice. The leaves will fall 
off, but this is not a danger signal, such plants being 
deciduous in their natural climates. It will be best 
to keep such plants as are to be stored in the cellar, 
from the time there is danger of frost until about 
November first, in an outbuilding or shed, where 
they will not freeze. This makes the change more 
gradual and natural. The temperature of the cel- 
lar should be as near thirty-four to thirty-eight de- 
grees as possible. About March first will be time 
