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PREPARATION OP PLANTS. 



When transplanted in the spring, the half-dead leaves should bo 

 pulled off and the roots shortened one third or one half their length. 



Fig. 8. 



Figure 7 shows the position of the roots when taken from the ground 

 A, being the runner connecting it with the parent plant ; B, a new 

 runner, on which another plant will be formed ; C D, the cross line, 

 showing the point at which the roots should be cut. This short- 

 ening induces them to throw out a new set of fibrous roots from 

 the ends cut off, which they would not do otherwise. It also causes 

 other roots to push from near the crown of the plant, as seen in 

 Figure 8. The shortening of the roots is beneficial to plants that are 



