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EBRUARY or March is a good time to put in cuttings. 

 Select the short shoots from the base of the plant, bare 

 the leaves well, of the cuttings, — insert them into flats of 

 half-leaf-mould and sand, — place the flats on a bench 

 near the glass with no bottom heat, temperature 45 by 

 night. If the sun is too strong during the middle of the 

 day, slight shading will be beneficial. They should be well rooted in four weeks ; 

 then they should be potted into three inch pots, — compost one-third loam, one 

 leaf-mould and one sand. When the pots are filled with roots, shift into six- 

 inch pots of two-thirds rotten sod and one-third rotten cow manure that has 

 been dried and rubbed down. They should be fit, by the middle of June, to 

 be put into their flowering pots. The vigorous growing kinds need larger pots 

 than the more delicate ones. The soil for this potting should consist of two- 

 thirds rotten sod and one-third rotten cow manure. To each bushel of the com- 

 post, add a six-inch pot.fuU of bonemeal. The soil should be firmly pounded 

 down against the sides of the pots, with a stick, as firm potting insures firm 

 growth. Stake your plant while you have it on the potting bench. After this 

 operation has been gone through with plunge the pots into beds of coal ashes, 



