38 MARKET NURSERY WORK 



about, around the edge of the pot, being made quite secure in their 

 hold by the dibble (see Fig. 22). When the pot is filled it should 

 be held quite level and immersed in a pail of water to thoroughly 

 wet it through, then be plunged in a hot-bed, well shaded and kept 

 quite close, opened only once every morning for the purpose of 

 sprinkling or letting out superfluous moisture. Daily attention 

 must be most scrupulously given, and as the foliage begins to 

 finish and fall, as it will, it must be taken off, or it will rot that 

 which still functions. 



DRAIN 

 -AGE 



FIG. 21. A. Rose Cutting 

 B. Section of 5" pot, showing Compost and Drainage 



The process of rooting takes about three weeks, by which time 

 probably all that remained of the foliage has disappeared, but 

 directly rooting begins the eye of the cutting starts into growth 

 and it must be immediately dealt with. Pot off into 6os, using a 

 peaty and sandy compost and stand back in the hot-bed, where 

 very careful treatment will be needed for two or three weeks, 

 practically the same treatment as that which they were given as 

 cuttings. It is only as growth begins and continues, as they become 

 established, that freer treatment in ventilating, in watering, and 



