ISO PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING. [CH. V. 



Therefore, in taking a cutting it is advisable to remove 

 a portion of the wood having on it a bud, or joint, as it 

 is popularly called, of the previous year's production. 



Many plants can be multiplied by cuttings with the 

 greatest facility, but others only with the greatest 

 difficulty, and after every care has been taken to 

 secure to the cutting eveiy circumstance favourable to 

 the developement of roots. 



Those plants which vegetate rapidly, and delight 

 in either a moist or rich soil, are those which are 

 propagated most readily by this mode, and such 

 plants are the willow, gooseberry, and pelargonium — 

 a budded section of these can hardly be thmst into 

 the ground without its rooting. 



Cuttings of those plants which grow tardily, or, in 

 other words, form new parts slowly, are those which 

 are most liable to fail. These are strildngly instanced 

 in the heaths, the orange, and ceratonia. 



A rooted cutting is not a new plant, it is only an 

 extension of the parent, gifted with precisely the 

 same habits, and delighting most in exactly the 

 same degrees of heat, light, and moisture, and in the 

 same food. 



A cutting produces roots either from a bud or eye, 

 or from a callus, resembling a protuberant lip, which 

 forms from the alburnum between the wood and the 

 bark round the face of the cut which divided the slip 

 from the parent stem. 



