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grafts ; seeds should be sown in well drained seedpans filled 

 with a mixture of equal parts peat, leaf-mould, and silver 

 sand. Cover them an inch deep and pack them away in a 

 moist warm place and never allow them to get quite dry. 

 They will be two years in germinating and it is no use to 

 endeavour to hasten the process by artificial heat. Cuttings 

 are to be prepared from the wood of tlie season when nearly 

 ripe and every joint will make a plant if the leaf is not 

 removed. Insert them firmly in sand and keep them cool and 

 slightly moist for three weeks, then put them in a moist 

 heat of 70° and they will soon make roots and must be potted 



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off in sandy peat and kept growing in a temperature of 50^ 

 to 60° the first winter. The easiest mode of propagating is 

 grafting by approach, or, as it is more commonly called 

 "inarching." 



This may be performed during summer or autumn, after the 

 wood is ripe, or early in the spring before the plants begin to 

 grow. AVe prefer the spring, because there is then a long 

 season of natural heat to perfect the union, and the scions may 

 be sooner cut from the parent plants. 



Place side by side the two plants that are to be operated 



