PROPAGATION BY CUTTINGS. 



pot (e) is filled with water, the drainage hole being plugged 

 with clay, and it is then elevated on the drainage (a, b) ; 

 the space (c) between the two pots is then filled up with soil, 

 over which is a layer of sand (//), into which the cuttings 

 are inserted, their bases touching the inner pot as shown. No 

 watering is required, as the water in the inner pot keeps the 

 soil constantly moist. 



TABULAR VIEW OF THE PARTS OF PLANTS FROM WHICH 

 CUTTINGS MAY BE TAK'EN. 



Some plants are best and most quickly propagated by stem-cuttings ; others, 

 as Begonias, Melastomads, &c., by leaf-cuttings ; and others again, as 

 Drosera, Dionaea, Cephalotus, Sarracenia, &c., by root-cuttings. 

 There are but few plants which may not be propagated from cuttings 

 in one or more of the ways enumerated below. 



