THE GARDEN 



other plants of similar nature are easily grown 

 from cuttings. The surest way to root them is 

 to insert them in shallow boxes of clear, coarse 

 sand, which should be kept warm and moist. 

 In a week or ten days most of these cuttings 

 will throw out roots. When new leaves 

 appear, you will know that roots have been 

 formed. Let a second set of leaves appear 

 before you remove them from the sand-box. 

 Then pot them off into moderately rich soil, 

 using small pots at first and shifting to larger- 

 sized ones when the old ones are filled with 

 roots. 



Many of our garden annuals make excellent 

 flowering plants for the living-room in winter. 

 Go over the Petunia bed, and when you find a 

 particularly pleasing variety pot it. Cut away 

 all the old top at potting-time. As soon as the 

 roots have taken hold on the new soil you put 

 them into, branches will be sent out from the 

 crown of the ^lant. Nip these back until you 

 have a dozen or more of them enough to make 

 the plant bushy and compact. Such a plant 

 will begin to bloom as soon as taken into the 

 house in fall, and continue to do so throughout 

 the entire season if the old branches are cut 

 back from time to time to induce the produc- 



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