THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 1369.— Geranium Cdtting. 



many cases the cuttings can be broken 

 off without the use of a knife. If in the 

 proper condition, most cuttings will root 

 readily from any part of the stem, but 

 with others that root with difficulty, and 

 especially if they have become too hard, 

 it will be well to have a bud near the 

 base of the cuttings, as roots are most 

 readily sent out from near the nodes. 



There are, however, a few plants that, 

 owing to some peculiarity of construction 

 or growth, need different treatment, and 

 among them are our common pelargon- 

 iums (geraniums) (Fig. 1369) and many 

 of the cacti and other succulent plants. 

 These are more or less succulent and if 

 placed at once in a cutting bed are 



likely to rot off. After being made, it is 

 well to spread them out and allow them 

 to wilt for from one day to one week 

 and then place them in a rather dry cut- 

 ting bed, or they may at once be potted 

 off, using a soil containing at least one- 

 half sand. If, after giving them one 

 thorough watering, water is with-held 

 until they begin to wilt, cuttings handled 

 in this way will often show smaller losses 

 than when grown in a cutting bed. Many 

 plants do not strike readily unless in a 

 moist, warm air and for such a hand 

 glass or propagating case must be used. 



A method of rooting cuttings that 

 gives excellent results, when bottom heat 

 cannot be secured, is placing them in 

 earthenware pans of sand two or three 

 inches deep which are kept constantly 

 saturated with water. The other treat- 

 ment, such as the making and setting of 

 the cutting, watering and ventilating, 

 is exactly the same as for the cutting 

 bed. Some of our common plants like 

 the oleander root even better if placed 

 in clear water than when in a cutting 

 bed, or the saucer with its mud. 



Any kind of glazed earthenware ves- 

 sel, of a suitable size and depth, may be 

 used, but if it is unglazed the water will 

 need to be much more frequently added. 

 — L.R. Taft, in American Agriculturist. 



Coreopsis lanceolata and C grandi- winter the most of ours that were raised 



Horn are still (July) giving us plenty of 

 their lovely yellow flowers. For cutting 

 this is one of the finest June flowering 

 perennials we have, and how free they 

 do flower ! They don't last a great 

 while, but then they give us a few 

 flowers in the early fall months, which 

 makes up for it. They are easily raised 

 from seed, but they don't seem to be 

 very hardy the first year, as we lost last 



from seed the summer before, while the 

 old plants in the garden came out all 

 right. — Gardening. 



Said the golden-rod as it looked 

 through the fence into a cornfield : 

 " Dear me, what big ears you have ! " 

 The corn was too shocked to say any- 

 thing in reply. 



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