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Anagallis, Antirrhinums, Calceolarias, 

 Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, 

 Dianthus, Double Wallflowers, Double 

 Stocks, Gorterias, Gaillardias, Dwarf 

 Lobelias, Fuchsias, Pelargonium, Pe- 

 tunias, Penstemoris, Pinks, Salvias, and 

 Verbenas. These may all be placed in 

 pots in sand in a frame heated either 

 by leaves, manure, or tan, or in a pit or 

 house built purposely, and heated by a 

 tank and hot water pipes. Greenhouse 

 hard-wooded plants or shrubs that strike 

 best from young shoots or tops. Aca- 

 cias, Aphelexis, Azalea (Chinese), Bo- 

 rouia, Bossirea, Chironia, Chorozema, 

 Crowea, Correa, Cytissus, Daviezia, Dil- 

 wynia, Epacris, Eriostemon buxifolium 

 (for stocks to graft the other species 

 on), Erica, Gastrolobium, Gompholo- 

 bium, Hardenbergia, Leschenaultia, 

 Kennedya, Mirbelia, Oxylobium, Plalty- 

 lobium, Pleroma, Podolobium, Pimelia 

 decussata (for stocks to graft the rest of 

 the genus upon), Pulteneea, Styphelia, 

 Tacsonia, Zichya, and all New Holland 

 shrubs of similar habit. These require 

 to be placed in a gentle tan-bed, planted 

 in pots in silver sand, closely covered 

 with bell-glasses, which should be wiped 

 dry occasionally, and shaded from clear 

 bright sunshine. Great numbers of 

 stove plants of woody habit require the 

 same mode of treating their cuttings, 

 for which see the body of the Dic- 

 tionary. 



Cutting s of partially ripened wood. 

 Camellia, Cape Pelargoniums, Coni- 

 ferse, Erythrina, Echites, Gardenia, 

 Gordonia, Hakea, Magnolia, Metros! - 

 deros, Nerium, Portlandia, Rosa, es- 

 pecially the China, and Tea-scented, 

 and most kinds of hardy evergreen 

 shrubs. 



Cuttings of leaves with a bud at the 

 base. When cuttings of any kind of 

 large-leaved plants are scarce, they may 

 be successfully increased by single 

 leaves with a bud at the base. We 

 need not particularize any species, as 

 most of the last section, and several of 

 the others that have moderate-sized 

 leaves, may be propagated in this mode 

 of making cuttings. 



Cuttinys of leaves only, ivitliout buds. 

 The following will increase readily by 

 this mode: Achimenes, Gesnera, Glox- 

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inia, and all of similar habit, as well 

 as some Begonias. 



Cuttinys of Offshoots from the base 

 of the old plants. Cinerarias, tall 

 Lobelias, Statices, and most kinds of 

 herbaceous plants, increase readily by 

 this mode. 



Cuttinys of the Roots. There are a 

 few plants that will not readily increase 

 by any of the above modes, particularly 

 some herbaceous plants ; (Enothera 

 macrocarpa is one, and CEnothera cces- 

 pitosa is another. Amongst hardy 

 shrubs the Pyrus Japonica and its va- 

 rieties mil propagate by this mode, 

 also the Abele poplar. In the stove, 

 the Ardisias, Clerodendrums, Dracae- 

 nas, Ipomeas the tuberous-rooted spe- 

 cies, and the Petrea stapelria. 



Cuttinys of the Flower-stem. Double 

 white and yellow Rockets, the tall Lobe- 

 lias, Double Lychnis, and a few others, 

 may be increased by cutting the flower- 

 stem into lengths, and placing the cut- 

 tings under a hand-glass in a shady 

 border. 



In all hollow - stemmed plants the 

 presence of a node, or joint, to cut 

 through at is essential. This is the 

 reason why cutting through at a joint 

 is also of importance in other cases, 

 and also the reason why taking those 

 little shrubby side shoots as cuttings 

 is often so successful, what is tech- 

 nically termed the heel the point of 

 junction between the elder branch and 

 the young shoot being Avell supplied 

 with incipient buds which readily pro- 

 duce roots. Whatever may be the 

 mode and the time in which a cut- 

 ting is made, and whether it is ne- 

 cessary in the peculiar circumstances 

 to cut clean through at a joint, it is of 

 importance that the cut be made with 

 a clean sharp knife. 



Time when cuttiuys sliould be taken. 

 When any particular period is men- 

 tioned for this operation in this work, it 

 is merely the period when, under gene- 

 ral circumstances, the practice would 

 be most suitable. Other things being 

 equal, spring and summer are the best 

 times for propagating greenhouse and 

 stove-shrubs, as thus the plants are 

 established before winter. 



Leaves of a cutttiny, Unless, in 



