PROPAGATION BY CUTTINGS. 



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-growth with the application of gentle heat in spring, and become a good 

 plant the following summer, though no larger than a good-sized pea when it 

 Tvent to rest in the autumn. 



Plants raised from cuttings should at all times receive the most generous 

 treatment, for at no time do they possess the vigour of seedlings, and if 

 starved or neglected soon dwindle and become a prey to insects and disease. 

 Still, it is at all times well worth while to take cuttings from any remarkable 

 or really fine variety, seedling or otherwise, and the stronger the constitution 

 of the parent plant, the more vigorous and successful will the young plants 

 undoubtedly be. 



LEAF CUTTINGS. 



IT is possible to obtain plants by means of leaf cuttings, treated in the same 

 way as Gloxinia leaves, but this is a very uncertain mode of increase, and 

 tubers thus obtained often refuse to grow through possessing no "eye" or 

 "bud," so that, except as an experiment, this method of propagation 

 -cannot be recommended. 



BEGONIA MR. POE. Camellia type. (See p. 58.) 



