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three inches deep, which are kept constantly saturated 

 with water. The other treatment, such as the making 

 and setting of the cuttings, watering and ventilating, is 

 exactly the same as for the cutting bed. Some of our 

 common plants, like the oleander, root even better if 

 placed in clear water than when in a cutting bed, or the 

 saucer with its mud. 



Any kind of glazed earthenware vessel, of a suitable 

 size and depth, may be used, but if it is unglazed the 

 water will need to be much more frequently added. 



EYE CUTTINGS. 



Many plants, such as the dracamas, cordylines, 

 Dieffenbachias and others that form very few terminal 

 shoots, have latent or adventitious buds upon their 

 stems, and if these are cut into sections, about three 

 inches long, and placed in a strong bottom heat in a 

 propagating case, shoots will soon be sent out, which 

 can then be taken off and rooted in sand. It is often 

 bene^cial to split the sections and place them in the 

 sand with the rounded side uppermost. The eye cutting 

 used in propagating the grape (Fig. 84) differs in having a 

 thin shaving of bark removed from the side opposite 

 the bud. 



EOOT CUTTINGS. 



It sometimes happens that it becomes necessary to 

 multiply plants rapidly that do not grow readilv from 

 cuttings of the stems, and which either increase in 

 number very slowly from the roots or fail to make good 

 plants when grown in this way, and some other form of 

 multiplication must be tried. If they have a tendency 

 to sucker from the roots, We can use what are known as 

 root cuttings. These are made by taking the roots of 

 such plants and cutting them into pieces from one to 

 three inches long. The pieces should be placed in flats, 

 either on propagating benches or in hotbeds, and covered 



