BOXES FOR CUTTINGS. 99 



inches wide, and fourteen inches long. For the 

 sides and bottom use ordinary laths cut exactly 

 in half. In making 1 the boxes put on the bot- 

 tom first, nailing on the two outside laths at the 

 start, then filling in between with others, allowing 

 about a quarter of an inch space between each two 

 pieces of lath. The bottom being made, put on the 

 sides. Each side will take two pieces of lath 

 without space between them. The boxes are now 

 ready to fill with soil, but before doing this spread 

 on the bottom of each box a thin coating of wet 

 sphagnum moss to keep the soil from washing out. 

 Put in enough soil to stand about half an inch 

 higher than the edges of the box, then take a brick 

 and gently press the soil down so that it is uni- 

 formly about half an inch below the edges of the 

 box. Set the cuttings with a dibble, so that they 

 will average one hundred to the box. 



In one box put thirteen rows of eight plants 

 each, in another twelve rows of eight plants each, 

 and so on. After setting out in this way, the 

 plants are shaded and watered carefully for a few 

 days, and then moved outside into a cold frame or 

 preferably kept in a house where they can be 

 looked after at all times. If put outside they 

 should be kept covered with a whitewashed sash. 

 Where sashes are at hand we prefer to make a 

 temporary house out of them. Such a house has 

 already been described and it will be found that 

 the plants can be looked after much better in 



