CUTTINGS OF UNEIPE WOOD. 39 



inch pots, filled with the same rich compost recommended 

 for other cuttings, except that the soil is mixed with sand 

 enough to constitute one half its bulk. 



After being potted they should be again placed, for a 

 few days, in the close frames, until they have recovered 

 from the check received in potting. The plants may now 

 be treated the same as the single-eye cuttings, except, if 

 you wish to produce good plants, it wih 1 be necessary to 

 keep them under glass the whole season, as the wood will 

 usually fail to ripen fuUy in the open air. 



When but few plants are to be grown, or there is no 

 lack of room, they may be started in the following man- 

 ner : Take an eight-inch pot and put some broken pieces 

 of pots or coarse gravel in the bottom for drainage, then 

 set a four or five inch pot within it the hole in the bottom 

 of the smaller pot being stopped tight; fill the open 

 space between the pots with sand, in which insert one row 

 of cuttings, an inch and a half or two inches apart, letting 

 the base of each cutting touch the inner pot, which is to be 

 filled with water ; enough of this will percolate through 

 the pot (if it is of the ordinary kind) to keep the sand suf- 

 ficiently moist. This is a safe mode, and will often be 

 successful when all others fail. The pots are to be kept 

 within the frames until the cuttings are rooted, the same 

 as before. Fig. 1 1 shows the arrangement of the pots ; 

 / /> / are the cuttings ; c, c, 

 sand between the pots ; c?, 

 water in inside pot; #, clay 

 with which the hole in the bot- 

 tom of the pot is closed ; 5, 

 drainage in the outside pot. 



The wood of which the cut- 

 tings are made must not be too 

 young or too old, but must be 

 taken just at the proper time, Fig. 11. 



that is, when it begins to show a slight firmness, but is not 



