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popular Bedding Violas 90 to 95 per cent, will root and make 

 good plants ; but choice varieties of Violas, and especially 

 Pansies, cannot be rooted in this way with any degree of 

 certainty. We advised the frame for safety at the beginning, 

 and we repeat the advice, because the small cultivator, who 

 has only a few dozen, or at the most a few hundred, plants 

 cannot take the risks from cats and other vermin that fre- 

 quent suburban gardens. We only bracket cats and other 

 vermin together from a gardener's point of view. 



Propagation by Division of the Plants. This method 

 is very often adopted for the purpose of obtaining large 

 plants for autumn planting. It was largely practised by 

 the late Mr. Jordan in Regent's Park. He related that 

 he had some 25,000 plants to propagate each year, and he 

 obtained them with the greatest facility. It was the practice 

 in Mr. Jordan's time to fill the huge beds in Regent's Park 

 with bulbs and Violas ; as the bulbs passed out of bloom the 

 Violas came into flower, and an effective display was obtained 

 during April, May, and June. At the end of June, or early 

 in July, the beds were cleared both of bulbs and Violas and 

 filled with summer-blooming plants just coming into flower. 

 When the Viola plants were lifted the old growths were 

 trimmed away, and the clumps pulled into three or four 

 pieces, which were planted in nursery beds in the open. It 



will be easily understood how, provided these nursery beds 



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