PROPAGATION FROM CUTTINGS 



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Practical Exercises 

 1. Soft Cuttings 



Provide a neat painted window-box; fill it with moist 

 sand and keep in a warm place. Bring stem cuttings 

 of geraniums, coleuses, fuchsias, begonias, or other house 

 plants, which may be obtained from home, insert the 

 slips into the moist sand, and firm the sand well about 

 the cuttings. Remove all but two or three of the leaves. 

 Keep the sand warm and moist, and watch the growth 

 from day to day. 



GRAPEVINE WELL THELLISED 



The leaves of the Rex begonia and wax plant may 

 be propagated by inserting the edge of the leaf or 

 even a piece of the leaf in sand and supplying it with 

 plenty of moisture and warmth. A leaf may be laid 

 flat, right side up, on the surface of the sand and fas- 

 tened down at intervals by splinters through the veins. 

 Plants will spring up at the bottom edges of the leaf or 

 at cut places in the veins. 



2. Hardwood Cuttings 



Select a dozen or more freshly made cuttings of grape 

 vines, taken from the previous year's growth. The cut- 

 tings should consist of three or four buds. Spade up 

 and thoroughly pulverize the soil in some warm rich 



