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cuttings are merely stuck in moist soil in a shady place. 

 Several forms of softwood cuttings have distinctive names. 

 Leaf cuttings are made from leaves or parts of leaves, which 

 are pegged down on moist sand and kept close. After a time 



FIG. 136. A Jamaican fern (Faydenia) in which 

 the leaves form new plants at their tips 



tiny plants will begin to form along the edge of the leaves. 

 Begonias, wax plants, and bryophyllums are multiplied in this 

 way, and among wild plants the sundews and many ferns have 

 the same faculty. Stem cuttings are the ordinary " slips " or 

 twigs taken with three, or more joints. Tuber cuttings are 

 pieces of tubers with one or more " eyes," or buds. Cuttings 



