78 PLANT PROPAGATION 
Japanese varieties are usually whip or veneer grafted on 
stocks of A. palmatum. 
ACHILLEA.—These useful and much-grown flowering 
plants are easily increased by dividing the clumps in 
November or March; also by cuttings of young growths 
under handlights or by seed sown out of doors in April. 
_ ACHIMEN#S are chiefly increased by the scaly rhizomes 
which are rather freely produced underground. Cuttings 
of young shoots strike freely in close, moist heat. New 
varieties are raised from seeds. 
Ap1iAntuM.—Most of this large and beautiful genus of 
Ferns may be propagated by division of the crowns and 
rhizomes ; also by spores sown on the surface of pots of 
fine compost covered with a pane of glass, kept moist 
and shaded. 
ADONIS (PHEASANT’S Eye).—The annual varieties may 
be sown and thinly covered with soil in the outside 
borders in March. Perennial sorts are increased by 
division after flowering and by seed. 
AECHMEA.—Suckers or offshoots are usually thrown up 
from the old stools after flowering. When these have 
attained some degree of firmness, they may be twisted 
off, potted into small pots, and given a little bottom 
heat to stimulate root action and top growth. Seedlings 
are very interesting to handle, but take longer to grow 
to a flowering size. 
AESCHYNANTHUS.—Cuttings of firm but not hard 
growths, 3 inches long, will strike root in sandy com- 
post under a bell-glass in spring if submitted to a close, 
moist heat of not less than 75 degrees. 
AEscuLUS.—From seed that has not been allowed to 
dry up and perish. Choice sorts by layers, grafting, or 
budding on stocks of the Common Horse Chestnut. 
