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Propagation. 



enough moisture from below to keep them fresh and plump. Cut- 

 tings of currants, grapes, quinces, gooseberries, etc., are to be taken 

 off in autumn, and they may be kept till early spring in the same 

 way as grafts, or they may be set out at once, pressing the earth 



- compactly against them, and cover- 

 ing well till spring with manure, 

 litter, leaves, or evergreen boughs. 



Fig. 53 c. 



The accompanying engravings (Figs. 53^ to 53/5 taken from 

 Rural Affairs ") serve to show more distinctly than the directions 



