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AZALEA CULTURE. 



In taking cuttings from the stock plants do not follow 

 the incorrect practice of pulling the branch, which is intended 

 for the cuttings, from the socket of the old wood, but use a 

 knife for cutting the branches, allowing one inch of the 

 young growth to remain. With such treatment as this the 

 plants will be shapely. A clean cut is more easily healed 

 than a ragged or torn one, both in plants and human beings. 



