CUTTINGS OF UNKIPE WOOD. 



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that the great majority are worthless. The facility with 

 which vines may be multiplied in this way is a great 

 inducement, to those who are disseminating the new 

 and rare varieties, to use it. It requires no more skill 

 than propagating from single buds ; all that is requisite 

 is to have a propagating house (or even a hotbed will do), 

 where a steady and uniform high degree of heat can be 

 maintained. 



The mode of operation is as follows : Place the 

 vines from which you desire to propagate in pots, or 

 plant them in the ground 

 within the propagating 

 house, and make the soil 

 in which they are planted 

 very rich, so that they 

 shall not want for food. 

 When the vines have made 

 a new growth of a foot or 

 so, take off the young 

 shoots, or a portion of 

 each; do not cut back all 

 the shoots at one time, as 

 this might too severely 

 check the growth of the 

 vine, but three-quarters of the number may be cut back, 

 or entirely removed, without doing any injury. 



The young shoots that have been selected for cut- 

 tings should be divided into pieces of two buds each, 

 cutting them off just below a bud; the leaf adjoining 

 the lower bud should be removed, but the upper one 

 must be left entire. Fig. 10 shows the appearance of 

 the cutting when ready for planting ; a shows the surface 

 of the soil when placed in the pots. Plant these cuttings 

 in six or eight inch pots filled with sand, putting several 

 cuttings in each, but not crowding them ; press the sand 

 down firmly around the cutting, leaving only the upper 



FIG. 10. 



