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CHAPTER VI. 



SLIPS IN THE PORTABLE GREENHOUSE 

 COLD OR HOT. 



Art of sticking Slips. How the Slips take Root. Slips in the Cold 

 Portable Greenhouse. Slips of Dwarf Succulent Plants. 

 "What is necessary to make them take Root. Slips from Leaves 

 and Fragments of Leaves. Slips of Begonias. Slips of Dwarf 

 Bengal Roses. Of China Roses. Of Pelargoniums. Of In- 

 dian Chrysanthemums. Slips in the Hot Portable Greenhouse. 

 How this Greenhouse is constructed. Slips of Camellias 

 destined to be Grafted. 



Art of Sticking Slips. 



fTIHE prodigious multiplicity of resources con- 

 J- trived by Nature for the propagation of. 

 plants is assuredly one of the most curious of all 

 the facts revealed by the study of vegetable phys- 

 iology. Life is disseminated with such profu- 

 sion in all the parts of plants, that with many 

 of them the least fragment placed in favorable 

 circumstances becomes a complete plant. The 

 art of rearing from slips rests upon the knowl- 

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