GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY PLANTS 119 



When green cuttings are preferred the plants may be started 

 into growth after the end of April. Shake the soil from the roots 

 and repot in rather small pots. In removing the old soil it will be 

 found that the nutritive roots are decayed and only the storage roots 

 remain. On coming into contact with moist soil these storage roots 

 speedily send out feeding roots, followed by the expansion of the 

 dormant buds on the canes. When the growths are a few inches long 

 they may be taken off with a heel, potted singly and put in a close 

 frame; or simply rooted in the sand bed and potted when roots are 

 formed. If kept growing without a check plants from green cuttings 

 will give the largest heads of bracts. Batches of cuttings may be 

 put in at intervals during the Summer. When well started in pots 



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