IO6 CARE OF PLANTS. 



to the number of roots, may have all the latter 

 cut off and made to make new ones in the sand. 

 Following this practice, about half the cuttings go 

 into the soil and half into sand. This practice 

 is especially commendable where Campbells are 

 grown, but for Marie Louise, as already pointed 

 out, the sand method throughout is believed to be 

 the best. 



The plants when placed in soil as already de- 

 scribed are to stand there until they are finally 

 set in the beds, which south of New York, 

 Pittsburg, and Chicago should not be later than 

 the first of June, North of this they may run till 

 the middle of June, or at the very latest the first 

 of July. Leaving out the first practice entirely, 

 it will be seen that in the second the young plants 

 stand in soil-filled flats or boxes from sixty to one 

 hundred and twenty days and then are set directly 

 where they are to grow for flowering. In the 

 third practice the young plants are in sand about 

 fifty days, when they are transferred to soil where 

 they remain until planting time, which runs, 

 according to locality, from the first of June to the 

 first of July. Any one by managing properly and 

 having not over twenty thousand plants ought to 

 be able to do all his planting in fifteen to twenty 

 days. In our section, Washington, we prefer 

 to plant between the first of May and the first 

 of June. 



We have omitted the practice of fall propa- 



