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pressed down on a sand bed and pinioned fast. 

 At the various cuts in the leaf new plants, after 

 awhile, start forth and need only to be detached 

 and planted in small pots to develop in a little time 

 into blooming plants. 



Many of our perennials, as for instance the 

 phlox, blue salvia, delphinum and the irises, also 

 some of our shrubs, such as the hydrangea ar- 

 borescens grandiflora, the flat-headed early bloom- 

 ing white type, and others of the plant kingdom, 

 may be increased by division, or separation of the 

 roots for replanting with the top left intact. 



A candidate for especial mention in this class 

 is the hardy chrysanthemum. Each spring after 

 growth has begun to start the old plants should 

 be dug out and separated if you wish the best 

 flowers. Every shoot, if pulled loose from the 

 parent plant and replanted in the garden will 

 make a new plant that should bloom abundantly 

 the succeeding fall. 



It will not be necessary to discuss but briefly 

 the operations of budding and grafting. These 

 operations are used not for the production of 

 more plants but rather to provide better ones of 

 certain classes. 



In budding roses or peach trees a slit is first 

 cut in the bark near the ground and a leaf eye 

 cut from the selected plant is inserted in the slit 

 and tied in place with raffia. This eye grows and 



