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are increased by this method. Some may be propa- 

 gated by any one of several methods. 



In the first place we will discover that there are 

 used both soft cuttings and hard wood cuttings, 

 and their treatment is entirely different, and the 

 work is done at different seasons. 



All soft cuttings are first placed in sand benches 

 or beds in greenhouses or hot beds, first to take 

 root, afterwards to be planted or lined out in the 

 nursery rows or to be grown in pots in the green- 

 house. 



Hard wood cuttings are taken in the fall, tied 

 in bundles of fifty or so and buried over winter or 

 stood on end in moist sand in the cellar. During 

 the winter the cuttings callous and in the spring 

 are lined right out in the nursery rows. 



Some of our flowering shrubs do best as hard 

 wood cuttings, others may be propagated from 

 soft wood. Grapes and others of our small fruits 

 usually are grown from hard wood. 



Our roses, many of them, the expensive ever- 

 greens, the geranium, chrysanthemums, scarlet 

 sage, phlox, coleus, and a great variety of other 

 plants are produced from cuttings. I might add 

 here, too, for the benefit of the uninformed that 

 cuttings are what are generally designated as 

 "slips" in amateur parlance. 



Just by way of showing the diversity of meth- 

 ods, the plants of privet for our hedges are grown 



