APPENDIX. 



PROPAGATION OF PLANTS BY CUTTINGS. 



Although this subject is somewhat foreign to a work 

 on vegetable gardening, yet it may be useful to many into 

 whose hands this book may come, to know on what con- 

 ditions, slips, or cuttings, form roots. The green-houses 

 or forcing pits, shown in another part of the book, are 

 such as can be used with complete success in rooting cut- 

 tings of Grape Vines, Roses, Bedding Plants of all kinds, 

 Evergreens, etc., etc. 



I do not know that I can present anything original on a 

 subject that has been so often discussed ; but, although I 

 have but little that is new to offer, I will endeavor to 

 simplify what too many gardeners, either intentionally or 

 through ignorance, try to surround and befog with 

 mystery. 



It is a general belief among many nurserymen that cut- 

 tings can best be rooted on benches formed over tanks, 

 but our large experience with every mode of heating in- 

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